Product liability (federal) duration statistics, by court
Product liability (federal) — federal product-liability suits, pharmaceutical mass torts included — take a median of 2.8 years from filing to resolution, based on 142,474 real cases in the public federal court record. Most resolve between 1.3 years and 6.0 years — full statistics, disposition mix, and district breakdown below.
Filing to termination · 142,474 cases · median 1,032 days
How product liability lawsuit cases end
Of 236,119 resolved cases — the observed record, not a prediction of any one case.
Product liability (federal) duration by court
Median time to resolution in the districts with the most product liability lawsuit cases.
| District | Cases | Median | Slowest 10% |
|---|---|---|---|
| E.D. La. | 13,411 | 5.9 yr | 6.5 yr |
| D. Minn. | 6,762 | 2.5 yr | 5.6 yr |
| D. Mass. | 4,306 | 3.4 yr | 4.7 yr |
| N.D. Tex. | 3,673 | 6.3 yr | 7.8 yr |
| C.D. Cal. | 3,059 | 108d | 2.1 yr |
| S.D. Fla. | 3,051 | 19d | 2.2 yr |
| N.D. Cal. | 2,821 | 2.3 yr | 4.3 yr |
| E.D. Mo. | 2,318 | 258d | 2.6 yr |
| M.D. Fla. | 1,810 | 293d | 2.2 yr |
| E.D.N.Y. | 1,477 | 2.3 yr | 4.4 yr |
| N.D. Ill. | 1,451 | 1.2 yr | 3.6 yr |
| D. Ariz. | 1,444 | 3.6 yr | 5.1 yr |
| S.D.N.Y. | 1,325 | 339d | 3.1 yr |
| N.D. Ohio | 1,286 | 1.6 yr | 4.4 yr |
| S.D. Cal. | 1,215 | 1.2 yr | 6.2 yr |
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Tertius, "Product liability (federal): how long federal cases take, and how they end" (2026). Analysis of Federal Judicial Center Integrated Data Base records, 9.1M U.S. federal civil cases. https://usetertius.com/benchmarks/product-liability
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Source: data/fjc/civil.parquet (Federal Judicial Center), cleaned by Tertius · model tertius-acta-6. Durations are filing to termination for U.S. federal civil cases. This is observed historical data, not a prediction of any specific case, and not legal advice. Tertius forecasts timing and disposition, never merits or damages.