Amber Nordin, from South Dakota earlier this year filed a personal injury and defective product liability lawsuit against C.R. Bard, because of the company’s Eclipse blood clot filters broke apart and embedded inside her internal organs. According to Nordin who filed her case in the…
An Arizonan woman, Margaret Garvy, recently filed a product liability and personal injury lawsuit alleging that side effects of Xarelto caused her to suffer a life threatening hemorrhagic pericardial effusion. Hemorrhagic pericardial effusion, is a serious medical condition where the sac around the
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” One of the most famous and immortal lines in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, written over 400 years ago. It is an apt descriptor describing the state of affairs at the world’s largest pharmaceutical and medical device maker, Johnson and…
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has been hammered by a St. Louis jury and ordered to pay $72 million to the family of a woman who died from ovarian cancer. The family of Jackie Fox filed a wrongful death claim for ovarian cancer caused by talcum…
Johnson & Johnson (J&J), the world’s largest pharmaceutical and medical device maker has been exposed to hundred of thousands personal injury and defective product liability lawsuits over the past 10 years. Plaintiffs have alleged in thousands of lawsuits that its DePuy line of ASR and…
Babette Davis from Wisconsin filed a morcellator product liability lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin against Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon unit after being diagnosed with leiomyosarcoma, a deadly aggressive form of uterine cancer. According to Davis, the Johnson
According to a product liability lawsuit filed earlier in January, a New Mexico woman claimed that she developed staphylococcus MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) infection following knee replacement surgery. Susan Borroughs filed her personal injury lawsuit in the U.S. District Cour
According to a recent Bloomberg news article this week, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has begun to settle thousands of personal injury and product liability lawsuits filed by women who blame the company’s vaginal-mesh inserts for causing severe injuries. First of Many Johnson and Johnson Ethicon…
Oren Fells from Georgia recently filed a Xarelto uncontrollable intracranial or brain bleeding lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The lawsuit was filed against Bayer Healthcare, Johnson & Johnson, and its Janssen subsidiary, the manufacturers of Xarelto. Catast
Michael G. Fitzpatrick, representative of the 8th district of Pennsylvania, has asked the FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations, to investigate whether three hospitals violated mandatory reporting policies in wrongful deaths related to the use of power morcellators during gynecological surgery. Br
According to the latest communication bulletin from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today, the popular plastic transvaginal mesh device which has been used to repair pelvic organ prolapse (POP) transvaginally, or through the vagina, will have to undergo rigorous safety studies before bei
Timothy Wilkes from Ohio, filed a testosterone drug personal injury and product liability lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. According to Wilkes, the side effects of the popular testosterone replacement medication, AndroGel caused a deep vein thrombosis or a…