Actos Litigation: Vance Andrus presently serves as a member of the Plaintiffs Steering Committee (PSC) in the Actos Multi-District Litigation (MDL) which alleges that Actos causes bladder cancer. The MDL PSC trial team recently completed the first bellwether trial against the defendants and was awarded a combined compensatory and punitive damages judgment of $9 Billion. Since then the litigation has settled for several thousand clients for a confidential amount.