The stages of a drug lawsuit include an initial evaluation, collection of medical records, an in-depth review of the case based on records, filing the lawsuit, and preparing information for the defendant. It is rare for one of these cases to actually go to trial.
Unfortunately, when the drug companies put out a bad drug it affects thousands to hundreds of thousands of people – so it is a major undertaking by both the law firms and the court system to prosecute these cases. As a result, these cases typically take five to seven years to resolve.