Mass torts may have dominated the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in 2015, but the number of new cases being filed in the Complex Litigation Center dipped substantially.
According to the year-end court statistics from the Complex Litigation Center, 1,288 new cases were filed in the mass tort program last year. That number represents a decrease of 807 from the 2,095 new cases that were filed in 2014. That is a more than 38 percent drop. Despite the reduced influx of new matters, the total inventory for the year flatlined, with the total number of cases pending in the mass tort program rising only from 5,305 to 5,320.
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