Shezad Malik is an Internal Medicine and Cardiology specialist, a Texas Medical Doctor (retired) and Defective Medical Device and Dangerous Drug Attorney.
Johnson & Johnson faces the first product liability personal injury lawsuit over side effects of Levaquin that caused peripheral neuropathy for Karyn Grossman, from Maryland. According to Grossman, she developed the severe and often permanent form of nerve damage after using the popular antibiotic.
According to the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML), all pending federally filed Cook inferior vena cava (IVC) filter lawsuits will be consolidated and centralized before U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young in the Southern District of Indiana, for coordinated pretrial proceeding
Last week a motion was filed by plaintiffs injured by Xarelto to have their cases transferred and consolidated as part of a MDL or multidistrict litigation. Presently, there are at least twenty-one (21) actions pending in ten different judicial districts in the United States alleging…
U.S. District Judge John Tunheim, a federal judge in Minneapolis has allowed a shareholder lawsuit to proceed against Medtronic Inc.’s Infuse bone growth product that could scupper the company’s $43 billion acquisition of Covidien, an Irish medical device company. According to the lawsuit there was…
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, earlier this week, considered the application for all Cook Celect and Gunther Tulip IVC filter lawsuits filed nationwide in U.S. District Courts. The application was brought by the plaintiffs and they requested that the litigation be centralized b
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., was slammed by the jury, and ordered to pay more than $2 million to a plaintiff who claimed that the company’s Actos diabetes medicine caused her bladder cancer. This was the latest Actos trial over bladder cancer claims from the medication. Jurors…
Currently there is a Pennsylvania state court trial underway that is pitting Frances Wisniewski against Asia’s largest pharmaceutical company, in a classic David and Goliath epic battle. At stake here is the final truth, that Actos is linked to severe injuries and in some instances…
Encouraging news for some women who have been injured by the transvaginal mesh debacle. Endo International Plc, the owner of AMS, has agreed to settle its product liability transvaginal mesh lawsuits that allege its line of vaginal-mesh implants caused personal injury by eroding through the…
According to a new Columbia University medical study, one in about 370 women who have the morcellation procedure to remove uterine fibroids have undiagnosed and unrecognized sarcoma cancer. This hidden danger can be spread throughout the body during the invasive procedure, leading the cancer staging
Anticoagulation therapy is necessary in several serious medical conditions including a common heart rhythm abnormality, known as atrial fibrillation, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism and in certain genetic blooding clotting diseases. The medications reduce the incidence of blood clots and re
Summer may have ended elsewhere but it is still hot in Dallas, Texas for the DePuy Pinnacle executives that are facing an unrelenting summer barbeque grilling over their defective DePuy Pinnacle line of metal on metal hips. The first federal bellwether trial against Johnson &…
A FDA advisory expert panel voted yesterday to impose strict limitations on the multibillion-dollar testosterone drug industry. The panel recommended that the agency change warning labels for the medicines so they are not prescribed for men who only have normal aging issues, such as low…
