Pending Mul+district Li+ga+on Distribution of Pending MDLs By Type as of 7/15/2015 As of July 7 th, 2015, there were 287 named MDL pending in various courts Contract, 12, 4% Securi*es, 26, 9% Sales Prac*ces, 36, 13% Air Disaster, 3, 1% Nearly half (47%) of all pending MDL is made up by product liability and anhtrust suits Products Liability, 69, 24% An*trust, 65, 23% Employment Prac*ces, 7, 2% Common Disasters, 2, 1% Intellectual Property, 18, 6% Miscellaenous, 49, 17% Data Courtesy of Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Pending Mul+district Li+ga+on Despite making up only 24% of all pending, named MDLs, products liability makes up 92% of all pending MDL achons AnHtrust achons make up 23% of pending, named MDLs, but only ~1% of pending achons The majority of achons in the common disasters category (2%) come from lihgahon resulhng from the BP Oil spill (In re Oil Spill by the Oil Rig "Deepwater Horizon" in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010) Products Liability, 120215, 92% Distribution of Pending MDL Actions By Type as of 7/15/2015 Contract, 107, 0% Securi*es, 305, 0% Sales Prac*ces, 858, 1% Employment Prac*ces, 32, 0% Air Disaster, 40, 0% An*trust, 1595, 1% Common Disasters, 2967, 2% Miscellaenous, 5292, 4% Intellectual Property, 158, 0% Data Courtesy of Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Number of Pending MDLs by District Court 40 35 30 Number of MDLs 25 20 15 10 5 0 N.D. Ala. E.D. Ark. D. Ariz. C.D. Cal. N.D. Cal. S.D. Cal. D. Colo. D. Conn. D.D.C. D. Del. M.D. Fla. S.D. Fla. M.D. Ga. N.D. Ga. D. Idaho C.D. Ill. N.D. Ill. S.D. Ill. N.D. Ind. S.D. Ind. D. Kan. E.D. Ky. W.D. Ky. E.D. La. W.D. La. D. Mass. D. Md. D. Me. E.D. Mich. D. Minn. E.D. Mo. W.D. Mo. W.D.N.C. D.N.H. D.N.J. D. Nev. E.D.N.Y. S.D.N.Y. N.D. Ohio S.D. Ohio W.D. Okla. D. Or. E.D. Pa. M.D. Pa. W.D. Pa. D.R.I. D.S.C. E.D. Tenn. W.D. Tenn. E.D. Tex. N.D. Tex. S.D. Tex. W.D. Tex. E.D. Va. E.D. Wash. W.D. Wash. E.D. Wis. N.D.W. Va. S.D.W. Va.
Terminated Mul+district Li+ga+on Total AcHons Subjected to 1407 Proceedings per Year by AcHons Terminated by Transferee Courts per Year For a four- year period between 2009 and 2012, the rate of MDL achons being terminated each year was greater than the rate of new MDL achons being brought each year In 2013, 28,000 more MDL achons were brought than terminated. In 2014, 39,042 more MDL achons were brought Number of MDL AcHons 60000 50000 40000 30000 20000 10000 0 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Fiscal Year Total AcHons Subjected to 1407 Proceedings AcHons Terminated by Transferee Courts Data Courtesy of Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
MDL AcHons Terminated (CumlaHve 1968-2014) Eleventh Circuit 43973 Tenth Circuit 2278 Ninth Circuit 12583 Eighth Circuit 28290 Seventh Circuit 9693 Sixth Circuit 21901 Fidh Circuit 22263 Fourth Circuit 6351 Third Circuit 221269 Second Circuit 13486 First Circuit 3253 District of Columbia 2550 0 50000 100000 150000 200000 250000 Number of MDL AcHons Data Courtesy of Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
MDL Ac+ons Terminated Between 1/1/2015 and 7/15/2015 Intellectual Property, 2 Contract, 1 Products Liability, 5 Between January 1 st, 2015 and July 15 th, 2015, 22 named MDLs have been terminated The average length of each MDL terminated between 1/1/2015 and 7/15/2015 from filing to terminahon is 6.07 years Miscellaneous, 6 Sales Prac*ces, 2 The longest MDL (In re Reciprocal of America (ROA) Sales PracHces LiHgaHon) lasted 12 years, 1 month and 15 days. The shortest (In re TLI CommunicaHons LLC Patent LiHgaHon) lasted 11 months and 13 days. Securi*es, 6
MDL SeAlement Rates Between 2000 and March 2015 MDL Category DisposiHve MoHon (%) Segled (%) Air Disaster 20 52-64 AnHtrusts 7 18-52 Contracts 8 30-63 Patent 12 55-71 Sales PracHces 6 66-88 SecuriHes 28 15-48 Products Liabilty - - Asbestos 0 85-87 251,221 MDL case terminahons were found between 2000 and March 2015 97% of terminated cases were personal injury products liability cases, and 69% were Asbestos cases 1% of MDL cases terminated by disposihve mohon and at least 72% of cases were segled Personal Injury 3 43-85 PharmaceuHcal 3 52-88
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