VerdictWiki — The Neutral Encyclopedia of Major Legal Cases

A neutral, sourced record of major legal cases: mass torts, class actions and landmark verdicts. Court, docket, case count with history, and reported settlement amounts — each figure tied to a public source. Browse the records: https://verdictwiki.com

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1. VerdictWiki Public court records · Regulatory sources · Independently maintained Major legal cases, on the record. The neutral encyclopedia of mass torts, class actions and landmark verdicts — every figure traced to a public source. No case promises. No marketing. 72 CASE RECORDS 18 ACTIVE MATTERS 6 COUNTRIES CA·FR·GB·IN·KR·US verdictwiki.com verdictwiki.com A public file on the big ones
2. THE PROBLEM Search a lawsuit. Land in a sales funnel. The people searching are often claimants, patients, families — at the worst moment to be sold to. What people ask • Is this case real, and what is its status? • How many cases have actually been filed? • Was there a settlement — and is that number real? • Which court, which docket, which judge? What they find • Law-firm lead generation dressed as information • “You may be entitled to compensation” — before the facts • Settlement figures with no source attached • Concluded cases kept “open” to harvest contacts verdictwiki.com verdictwiki.com Neutral, sourced case records barely exist as a category
3. WHY IT MATTERS Mass litigation is the mainstream of U.S. civil justice ~70% 100,000s 50+ years of pending federal civil cases sit in multidistrict litigation of individual claims pending across active MDLs of landmark product litigation — Dalkon Shield to GLP-1 per JPML statistics reports per JPML monthly pending-cases reports per public dockets compiled on VerdictWiki Behind every docket number are thousands of people making medical, financial and legal decisions — usually with marketing as their only source. verdictwiki.com verdictwiki.com Every figure above carries its source — that is the whole point
4. THE PROJECT A public file on the big ones VerdictWiki compiles public court records and regulatory sources into one neutral reference: what happened in court, what regulators found, how many cases, what the filings say. Active docket Archived records Six countries 18 live matters — status, court, case counts, verified dates. Updated from public dockets. 54 concluded matters — from Vioxx and Dalkon Shield to VW and transvaginal mesh — kept public as reference. US · CA · GB · FR · IN · KR — mass claims are global; the record follows them. ON THE RECORD TODAY: MDL 1657 · VIOXX MDL 2179 · BP MDL 2599 · TAKATA MDL 2592 · XARELTO MDL 3163 · GLP-1 verdictwiki.com verdictwiki.com 72 case records · verdictwiki.com/cases
5. METHOD How a case record is built On the record Court, MDL number, judge, filing and termination dates — with links to the actual dockets. Case count, with history How many cases — and how the number moved over time. Dates, not just a counter. CASE RECORD In re: Vioxx Products Liability Litigation MDL 1657 · E.D. Louisiana Filed 2005-02-16 Terminated 2018-11-13 Settlements, honestly Reported amounts, each with its source. When nothing is public, the record says so. Settlement on the record — source: court filings, per public reports FAQ & sources The questions people actually ask — answered from the record, sources behind each answer. verdictwiki.com verdictwiki.com Every record follows the same structure
6. EDITORIAL POLICY No figure without a source. Claimants allege — we attribute Amounts only with attribution Allegations stay allegations. Findings are findings. The difference is preserved in every sentence. “$X billion (per DOJ)” or nothing. If no amount is public, the record says exactly that. Concluded means concluded Machine-checked before publish Archived cases say “case reviews closed” — no fake urgency, no contact harvesting. An automated “red-zone” gate blocks any build containing unsourced figures or case promises. “Court records are public. Our reading of them is neutral.” verdictwiki.com verdictwiki.com The gate is code, not a promise
7. POSITIONING A category of one: the neutral record Lead-gen lawsuit sites Legal news hubs VerdictWiki Primary sources linked on every figure States when no amount is public Covers concluded cases as archives No “you may be entitled” case promises Docket numbers, judges, verified dates Lead-gen sites monetize urgency. News hubs monetize attention. VerdictWiki's asset is trust — which compounds. verdictwiki.com verdictwiki.com Category assessment based on public review of leading sites, 2026
8. PROOF, NOT OPINION Built from the public record Every case page links to the underlying record. These are the shelves the library is built from: JPML statistics reports CourtListener / RECAP MDL dockets, pending & terminated litigation — jpml.uscourts.gov Federal dockets, filings and opinions — Free Law Project FDA & regulators Recalls, safety communications, adverse-event records Official settlement administrators Court-approved claims programs and their published terms DOJ press releases Enforcement actions, resolutions and penalties — justice.gov Reuters · AP Wire reporting for developments not yet in the docket Wikipedia and secondary media are used as a map — never as the source of a figure. verdictwiki.com verdictwiki.com Sources listed on every record — verdictwiki.com/about
9. COVERAGE TODAY From Dalkon Shield to GLP-1 72 18 54 6 case records active matters archived records countries Five decades of the cases that changed law and industry: 1970s–80s Dalkon Shield · Agent Orange · Ford Pinto · DES 1990s Silicone implants · Fen-Phen · Tobacco-era litigation 2000s Vioxx · Baycol · Firestone/Ford · Guidant 2010s Deepwater Horizon · VW Diesel · Transvaginal mesh · Takata 2020s Roundup · Talc · Camp Lejeune · GLP-1 · social-media claims verdictwiki.com verdictwiki.com Full list — verdictwiki.com/cases
10. AUDIENCE Who reads the record Claimants & families Journalists & researchers Understand the case before signing anything — status, deadlines, what is actually on the docket. Sourced timelines, docket numbers and settlement history, ready to cite. Legal professionals Search & AI assistants A fast neutral reference across matters, courts and jurisdictions. Structured, attributed records (LegalCase / FAQ schema) — built to be cited, not scraped around. When an assistant answers “what happened with Vioxx”, the citation should be a neutral record — not a law-firm pitch. verdictwiki.com verdictwiki.com Reference-grade by design
11. ROADMAP Where the record goes next 1 2 3 4 Company & product files Case update notifications More jurisdictions Open structured data Every defendant company as its own record: litigation history, recalls, penalties — attributed. Follow a matter; get an update when the docket moves. No spam, no sales. Deeper coverage of CA · GB · EU collective actions and redress schemes. The record as data: schema.org today, a public dataset next. The model: build the reference people trust first — the rest follows the trust. verdictwiki.com verdictwiki.com Shipping continuously since 2026
12. VerdictWiki Let’s put the record to work. Partnerships · data · media · distribution Ophelia Ellington CMO, VerdictWiki verdictwiki.com verdictwiki.com opheliae@verdictwiki.com opheliae@verdictwiki.com The neutral encyclopedia of major legal cases verdictwiki.com verdictwiki.com © 2026 VerdictWiki · Not legal advice