Depo-Provera Lawsuit Updates
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If you were told in June that Pfizer had agreed to settle the Depo-Provera cases, and nothing has reached you since, you are in the same position as thousands of other women. The agreement was announced without a dollar figure, without a claims form, and without a date.
Something did change over the summer. The court has now appointed the people who will actually run the settlement. That is the step that turns an announcement into a process.
If you received Depo-Provera injections and were later diagnosed with a meningioma, you can ask for a free case review. Whether that history supports a claim depends on your injection dates, your diagnosis, and the deadline in your state. Pick the situation that fits:
Free and no obligation. Deadlines are set by your state and usually run from the date of diagnosis. Submitting a review request does not create an attorney-client relationship.
Where things stand right now
In June 2026, Pfizer and the lawyers appointed to lead the federal cases said they had reached an agreement in principle to settle the Depo-Provera meningioma claims. The financial terms were not made public. They still have not been.
An agreement in principle means the two sides have agreed to settle and are still writing down what that means. The eligibility rules, the amounts, and the paperwork all get decided at the writing-down stage. None of that has been published yet.
The first test trial, which had been set for December 2026, was taken off the calendar after the announcement.
If you have a lawyer, the person who can tell you where your own case sits is that lawyer. Nothing on this page changes what they have told you.
The court appointed the settlement team
A settlement of this size is not run by the lawyers who negotiated it. The judge appoints outside professionals to handle the money and the paperwork, and those appointments are public. Over five weeks, Judge M. Casey Rodgers made four of them.
- August 5: BrownGreer was appointed settlement administrator, the firm that would process claims.
- September 4: an allocation master was appointed to decide how a supplemental fund gets divided.
- September 4: an accountant was appointed to hold and manage the settlement money itself.
- September 4: BrownGreer was also appointed to handle liens, meaning the claims that health insurers and Medicare make against a settlement payment.
On September 15 the court opened a separate docket just for settlement business, which keeps the administration paperwork apart from the ongoing litigation.
Read together, those five orders say the settlement is being built rather than merely discussed. They do not say when payments start, and they do not say who qualifies.
The claims process is being built, and it is not open yet. Eligibility has not been published, so nobody can tell you today whether a particular case is covered. What a review can do now is look at your injection history, your diagnosis date, and your state deadline.
Check Whether You May QualifyA separate hearing is happening on September 18
Running alongside the settlement is an argument about the science. Pfizer asked the court to rule that the plaintiffs' medical experts should not be allowed to testify that Depo-Provera causes meningioma. The plaintiffs asked the court to exclude Pfizer's experts for the same kind of reason. Both sides finished filing their papers on August 7.
The judge set a hearing on those questions for September 18, 2026, in Pensacola, Florida. The next general status conference is set for October 16, 2026.
This matters most to anyone whose case may sit outside the settlement. If the court limits what the plaintiffs' experts can say, cases that are not covered by the agreement become much harder to pursue. Whether any particular case is inside or outside the agreement depends on facts that have not been made public yet.
People are still filing
New Depo-Provera cases have kept arriving since the settlement was announced. The federal court count went from 5,830 at the start of July to 6,294 in August and 6,403 in September, according to the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation's monthly reports.
The pace has slowed. July added 464 cases and August added 109. A year ago the docket held 806.
One thing that slowing does not tell you is whether filing now still counts. Deadlines in these cases run on state law and usually start from when a person was diagnosed, not from when the settlement was announced.
Waiting for the settlement terms does not pause your deadline. The clock is set by state law and it has been running since diagnosis for most people.
Get a Free Depo-Provera Case ReviewWhat to watch next
- The ruling on the expert evidence, after the September 18 hearing.
- The written settlement terms, which would set out who is eligible and how much.
- A claims process opening, which is what the administrator appointments are preparing for.
- The October 16 status conference.
This page gets rewritten when those land. The main Depo-Provera page carries the medical and background material that does not change month to month.
How this page fits with the main Depo-Provera page
This page tracks what is happening in court. The main Depo-Provera lawsuits page explains what the cases claim, what a meningioma is, and what records people tend to gather. If you are new to this, start there and come back here for the current status.
Sources
- Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, monthly distribution of pending MDL dockets, July–September 2026.
- Docket of In re: Depo-Provera (Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate) Products Liability Litigation, MDL 3140, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, case management orders and scheduling orders, August 5 through September 15, 2026.
Find Out If You May Have a Case
If you received Depo-Provera injections and were later diagnosed with a meningioma, a free case review can look at your injection history, your diagnosis date, and your records. It is free, and it can tell you what your situation looks like while the settlement terms are still being written.
Free and no obligation. Lawsuit Center is not a law firm and submitting a request does not create an attorney-client relationship.
