How to Join the Ozempic Lawsuit

There is no sign-up sheet for the Ozempic lawsuit. MDL 3094 (stomach injuries) and MDL 3163 (NAION vision loss) are not class actions you join with a form; each is a collection of individual lawsuits, filed by a lawyer for one patient and coordinated in one federal court for pretrial work. “Joining” means having your own case reviewed, accepted and filed. Here is exactly how that happens, what you need, and how long each step takes.

As of August 31, 2026: 1,031 cases filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 101 filed in the last 30 days. See the member-case ledger on the MDL tracker.

Can you sign up for the Ozempic lawsuit online?

You can start online, but you cannot “sign up” the way a class action settlement lets you submit a claim form. A lawyer files a complaint in your name, on the court’s short form complaint, and it proceeds inside the MDL. What you can do online today is a free two-minute claim review that tells you whether your drug history and injury fit the filed cases.

Step 1 — Confirm the drug and the injury fit

The filed cases involve Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus (Novo Nordisk) and Mounjaro, Zepbound and Trulicity (Eli Lilly). The stomach-injury cases involve gastroparesis, bowel obstruction or ileus, and related injuries; the vision cases involve NAION. See can you sue over Ozempic or a GLP-1 drug? and the injury pages on stomach paralysis, bowel obstruction and NAION.

Step 2 — Gather what you can (and don’t wait for what you can’t)

• Pharmacy records or the prescription label showing the drug, dose and dates.
• The record that documents the injury: gastric emptying study, hospital or ER records, imaging showing an obstruction, or the ophthalmology record for NAION.
• Names of the prescriber and the treating specialists.
• Dates symptoms started, and whether they continued after stopping the drug.

Missing items do not stop a review; records requests are part of the process. See the GLP-1 claim checklist.

Step 3 — Free claim review

The review is a short call or the online form: which drug, when, what happened, what testing followed, and your state. You are told at the end whether the case fits, what is unclear, and what records would settle it. There is no charge for the review and no fee unless there is a recovery.

Step 4 — Signed authorization and records

If the case fits, you sign an authorization that lets the firm request pharmacy and medical records. This is not a retainer; it lets the work start. Records usually take two to eight weeks to arrive.

Step 5 — The court’s proof requirement

MDL 3094 requires stomach-injury plaintiffs to meet specific evidentiary standards, including the gastric emptying study requirement in Document 468. Your lawyer checks your records against those requirements before filing so the case is not dismissed on paper.

Step 6 — Case acceptance, the engagement agreement, and filing

With records in hand, the case is either accepted or you are told plainly why not. Acceptance comes with a written engagement agreement that sets out the contingency percentage and how case expenses are handled; there are no upfront costs. The complaint is then filed on the MDL’s short form and your case moves with the litigation. Progress is tracked on the MDL 3094 tracker.

Deadlines: how long you have to join

Each state sets its own statute of limitations; most count from when the injury was diagnosed or should have been discovered, and some allow as little as one year. See is it too late to file? and our state guides; the deadline analysis is part of the free review.

What joining does not require

You do not need to stop the medication (see still on a GLP-1?), you do not need a claim against your prescriber (see why), you do not need to pay anything, and you do not need to travel.

Common questions