Legal News & Injury Law Trends

Monsanto Roundup Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma Cancer Lawsuits

The giant agricultural chemical and herbicide producer Monsanto has come under fire over its blockbuster weed killer Roundup. Roundup lawsuits are being filed nationwide as Monsanto is exposed to an increasing number of product liability and personal injury claims over the popular weed killer. The…

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 24 Oct 2016

Ethicon Hernia Physiomesh Recall Over High Failure Rates

Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon unit has recalled its blockbuster hernia repair mesh medical device from the market worldwide, after it was found to cause severe side effects and surgical revisions. According to Johnson & Johnson the exact mechanism for the failures are unknown, and the…

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 18 Oct 2016

Stryker LFIT V40 Metal Hip Fiasco

Metal and metal hip implants made from titanium, molybdenum, cobalt and chromium alloy have been all the rage over the past 16 years. There was a rush to the market as each major hip manufacturer made similar products with minor changes and touted that their…

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 14 Oct 2016

Texas Talc Ovarian Case Death Claim

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…

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 16 Aug 2016

J&J Talcum Powder under fire for Ovarian Cancer

Hot on the heels of two back to back stunning jury verdicts for its of Johnson’s Baby Powder, Shower-to-Shower and other similar products, Johnson and Johnson (J&J) continues to deny any liability. Many in the medical industry have suspected for decades that the use of…

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 24 May 2016

Johnson & Johnson Talcum Baby Powder Cancer Bombshell

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…

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 31 Mar 2016

Talcum Powder Ovarian Cancer and J&J

“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…

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 25 Feb 2016

J&J Slammed in Baby Powder Death Lawsuit

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…

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 23 Feb 2016

J&J Talcum Powder Ovarian Cancer Trial Underway

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…

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 3 Feb 2016

New Mexico Knee Replacement Infection Claim From Bair Hugger Surgical Warmer

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

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 29 Jan 2016

First Johnson and Johnson Ethicon Vaginal Mesh Injury Settlement

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…

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 28 Jan 2016

The Untold Story About Xarelto and Pradaxa Bleeding Injuries

According to court documents, the number of Xarelto bleeding injury lawsuits have exploded, with 400 cases being filed in the month of August alone. And the numbers of claims will continue to rise.. Since December 2014, all federal product liability lawsuits filed against Bayer and…

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 3 Nov 2015