More than 1,000 new Vioxx cases have been filed in New Jersey alone since mid-August as well as nearly 800 in September of 2005.
The new total includes 3,481 cases filed and docketed as of late this week in New Jersey. There are another 2,200 USDCT cases filed. More than 410 have been transferred to federal court for the Eastern District of Louisiana before Judge Fallon.