The first St. Jude Riata federal bellwether trial has been scheduled for February 2015. This trial involves two filed product liability lawsuits against St. Jude. U.S. District Judge James V. Selna is presiding over the St. Jude Riata lawsuits filed in the U.S. District Court…
According to confidential sources and a news report in Bloomberg, Coloplast A/S, has agreed to pay about $16 million to settle its transvaginal mesh lawsuits. Injured women who were implanted with the Danish mesh manufacturer’s vaginal-mesh inserts had filed personal injury claims against the compan
A 58-year-old California man who suffered injuries after using the testosterone therapy Testim has sued manufacturer Auxilium Pharmaceuticals Inc., claiming it coordinated a massive ad campaign to aggressively promote the need for its product while failing to warn users of life-threatening side effe
Virginia Stuntebeck, has filed a product liability lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson and Bayer, claiming that she nearly bled to death from the side effects of Xarelto, a newer type of anticoagulant. XARELTO is not a direct thrombin inhibitor and has a different mechanism of…
As affected folks know, Stryker Rejuvenate hip failure case filings throughout the United States continues to expand, with several thousand injured patients claiming that they have experienced problems after receiving the recalled hip metal on metal implant. Minnesota Federal Stryker MDL U.S. Distri
According to Bloomberg News, the judge overseeing the Ethicon Transvaginal Mesh bellwether trials, threw out a woman’s product liability lawsuit against Johnson and Johnson (J&J). U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin in Charleston, West Virginia, granted a directed verdict for J&J on Carolyn Lewis’s c
Earlier in February, a North Carolina man and his wife filed a product liability lawsuit against the makers of AndroGel. Roger Gibby, a retired highway patrol officer, alleges that side effects of the testosterone gel caused him to suffer a pulmonary embolism and a deep…
Great news for folks injured by Actos diabetes drug. As most people know the first federal Actos trial has started on Monday February 3rd. The jury has been picked and is ready to go into a marathon trial expected to last several weeks. Takeda Pharmaceutical…
According to confidential sources, Merck & Co. has agreed to pay $100 million to settle more than 1,700 lawsuits. These cases allege that the NuvaRing contraceptive device causes potentially fatal blood clots in women. The settlement, which resolves cases in federal and state courts in…
According to newly unsealed legal documents, Boehringer Ingelheim, the manufacturer of the blood-thinning drug Pradaxa were anxious that an internal research paper would damage drug sales and they suggested it should be suppressed. Key Documents Unsealed The key documents were recently made public b
As previously mentioned in this blog, we believe there are serious medical risks from the use of testosterone gel supplements and plaintiffs agree with us. Several recent medical studies have found an increased risk of heart attacks from AndroGel and other testosterone treatments. http://www.youtube
Biomet Orthopedics the manufacturer of a line of metal on metal hips, announced a global settlement late yesterday, involving the hundreds of defective hip claims. The agreement settles Biomet M2a Magnum hip lawsuits brought in the federal court system. Biomet agreed to pay $56 million…