Recently a wrongful death lawsuit was filed against Johnson & Johnson, claiming that many cases of ovarian cancer from talcum powder could have been prevented if the company had placed warning labels on Johnson’s Baby Powder and Shower-to-Shower about the risk of using the talc…
As the number of Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) filter lawsuits climbs past the 1,500 mark over design defects leading to fractures, migration, tilting and perforation, California plaintiffs in litigation against the Cordis Corporation have moved to consolidate 140 cases that charge that its TrapEase and
Hot on the heels of a record jury verdict for a consolidated group of DePuy Pinnacle hip injury claims, the defense filed an appeal to 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to prevent the next set of hip trials set for September. Now comes word, that…
According to U.S. District Judge Fallon, presiding over 6,400 Xarelto lawsuits filed in the federal court system, four Xarelto personal injury and product liability cases will go to trial early next year. Xarelto Injury Claims Climbing There are more than 6,400 personal injury, wrongful death and pr
As the number of Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) filter lawsuits climbs past the 1,500 mark over design defects leading to fractures, migration, tilting and perforation, researchers find that the normal movement and flattening of the vena cava, may be the leading cause of the device…
U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade has sliced the $500 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy unit over its defective metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implants to about $151 million. According to Judge Ed Kinkeade, he was forced to reduce the verdict under Texas state…
Cook Medical and plaintiffs who have filed an IVC filter lawsuit against the company failed to reach settlement over the IVC filter personal injury, wrongful death and product liability claims, at a meeting held earlier this week. Cook Medical and plaintiffs have agreed to bellwether cases…
Earlier this year, a Texas jury slammed Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary DePuy over its failed Pinnacle hip implants, awarding $500 million. The DePuy Pinnacle hip implant is a metal-on-metal implant system that fails prematurely, releasing particles of metal into surrounding tissue leading to…
According to sources nearly 90% of the morcellator hysterectomy cancer lawsuits filed against Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon unit have been settled. Cancer ridden women afflicted with leimyosarcoma, an aggressive form of uterine cancer and their families filed personal injury and defective product liab
The federal multidistrict litigation against Cook Medical took another positive step recently. Cook Medical and plaintiffs have agreed to bellwether cases that will be prepared for early trial dates. Cook IVC Filter Federal MDL All federal product liability and personal injury lawsuits over complica
There are over 100,000 vaginal mesh injury lawsuits pending nationwide, involving claims that women suffered painful and serious side effects/complications after receiving pelvic mesh products sold by Johnson & Johnson (J&J), American Medical Systems (AMS), Bard, and Boston Scientific among others.
According to orthopedic experts, we have only seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to painful revisions for failing hip metal on metal implants. Poor patients, they were sold a bill of goods from the orthopedic device manufacturers and the orthopedic doctors who…