Stryker Corp recently agreed in November 2014, to pay more than $1 billion to settle lawsuits filed by patients injured by its Rejuvenate and AGB II Modular Hip Implants. Plaintiffs will receive an average of $300,000 to settle their defective product claim, and many are…
There have been eight Actos Bladder Cancer trials to date across the United States. The majority of them have been held in various state courts and only one has been tried in the federal MDL out of thousands filed. The federal MDL case, a real…
A Missouri family has recently filed an uterine cancer lawsuit over power morcellators. The deceased woman’s family alleged that the morcellator device manufactured by Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon subsidiary caused cancer to be widely spread during a robotic hysterectomy. Ethicon Morcellator Wrongful
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation announced consolidation and centralization of all nationwide Xarelto lawsuits filed in federal courts before U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon in the Eastern District of Louisiana. Over 50 Federal Xarelto Lawsuits Bayer Healthcare and Johnson & J
Later this week, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) will hear oral arguments to consolidate all federal Xarelto lawsuits before one judge, in one centralized U.S. District Court. It is widely anticipated that the U.S. JPML will establish centralized proceedings for coordinate
They say when it rains it pours and there must be a rain storm up there in Massachusetts at the corporate headquarters of Boston Scientific. The hits keep on coming, in the second federal trial involving Boston Scientific Corp., the vaginal mesh manufacturer must pay…
In the first federal trial involving Boston Scientific Corp., the vaginal mesh manufacturer must pay $26.7 million to a group of four women who blamed the company’s vaginal mesh inserts for their personal injuries. Jurors in federal court in Miami found that Boston Scientific officials…
According to a motion pending before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML), all Xarelto lawsuits filed in U.S. District Courts should be consolidated and centralized before one judge. as part of a MDL or multidistrict litigation. There are at least 30 actions pending in…
As the unfortunate metal on metal hip debacle continues to be played out nationwide, for those folks who have been implanted with either a Stryker Rejuvenate or ABG II artificial hip metal implant there is some compensation to their suffering. Stryker Corp. agreed yesterday to…
Johnson & Johnson was found not liable for personal injuries and product liability by a Texas jury in the first case to go to trial. Jury Found For Johnson & Johnson DePuy The Dallas federal jury ruled unanimously against the plaintiff Kathleen Herlihy-Paoli, who said…
As the metal on metal hip debacle continues to be played out nationwide, with thousands of affected patients, for those folks who have been implanted with either a Stryker Rejuvenate or ABG II artificial hip metal implant there may be a ray of hope. What…
The Actos Bladder Cancer trial in West Virginia state court is set to start over allegations that Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.’s popular diabetes drug Actos causes bladder cancer. The West Virginia trial comes shortly on the heels of a $2 million verdict in Philadelphia on…