The latest batch of Zimmer Durom Acetabular Component (Durom Cup) Hip lawsuits are beginning to settle. Settlement negotiations have been in process over the past few months and the manufacturer has agreed to resolve the litigation which has been around for the past 8 years.…
Nexium and Prilosec product liability and personal injury kidney failure lawsuits are being investigated against AstraZeneca, the drugs manufacturer. These drugs and others in the same class are known as Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs). There several hundred claims under investigation alleging chronic
Many product liability and personal injury lawsuits have been filed against the Wright Conserve line of metal on metal hips. In 2015, there was a $11 million jury award in a Wright Conserve hip replacement lawsuit. A Georgia jury awarded Robyn Christiansen $1 million in…
Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) filters have come under fire over the past 6 years as more information has come to light over the increased risk with these defective medical devices. Case in point, Amber Nordin, from South Dakota earlier this year filed a personal…
Thomas Coe from California, has filed a lawsuit against Bayer and Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen subsidiary, claiming that his subdural hematoma bleeding injury was caused by Xarelto, a new-generation anticoagulant. Coe recently filed his claim in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of…
Hot on the heels of a record $72 million verdict by Jacqueline Fox against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) over the talcum powder’s risk of causing ovarian cancer, comes another expose in Bloomberg News. Fox died from ovarian cancer in October 2015. In February 2015, a…
Hot on the heels of the recent Wall Street Journal’s report that Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon unit is quietly settling morcellator cancer lawsuits, several undiagnosed uterine cancer injury claims are being filed. These new product liability claims are being filed on behalf of women diagnosed…
According to the Wall Street Journal, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) the world’s largest medical device and pharmaceutical company is settling personal injury and product liability lawsuits alleging that its now-recalled hysterectomy device injured women by spreading an undetected hidden cancer. Court docu
Today, a Texas federal jury in Dallas has awarded $502 million total to five separate plaintiffs after a lengthy consolidated trial involving defective Pinnacle Hip Implants manufactured by DePuy Orthopaedics and Johnson & Johnson (J&J). DePuy Orthopaedics and Johnson & Johnson was found liable hidi
Chemotherapy permanent hair loss particularly in the treatment of breast cancer can be devastating. Now Sanofi-Aventis, the maker of a popular intravenous chemotherapy drug, Taxotere, is exposed to several lawsuits alleging that the side effects of Taxotere, may cause permanent hair loss or baldness
According to bombshell revelations in the New York Times, did two major pharmaceutical companies, in an effort to protect their blockbuster drug, Xarelto, intentionally mislead editors at one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals? Several thousand injured plaintiffs have filed personal in
Bristol-Myers Squibb and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., the makers of Abilfy are under fire for the side effects of their blockbuster drug. The companies are exposed to a new product liability and personal injury lawsuit, which claims that the compulsive or pathological gambling side effects associated…