An Actos Bladder Cancer trial in West Virginia state court has started over allegations that Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.’s popular diabetes drug Actos causes bladder cancer. The West Virginia trial comes shortly on the heels of a $2 million verdict in Philadelphia on October 3 over the blockbuster drug. It…
Johnson & Johnson was found not liable for personal injuries and product liability by a Texas jury in the first case to go to trial. Jury Found For Johnson & Johnson DePuy The Dallas federal jury ruled unanimously against the plaintiff Kathleen Herlihy-Paoli, who said the two metal-on-metal Pinnacle hips…
The slow moving train wreck that we call the Metal on Metal Hip debacle continues to grind on. For the thousands of patients who were promised the latest and greatest hip technology but instead were sold a pile of scrap metal, and the significant risk of metal poisoning, there maybe…
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 proceedings. This order by the JPML establishes a…
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 reduce the rate of strokes as in the case of…
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 to be upgraded from stage…
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 vagina in some women and…
The Philadelphia jury spoke loud and clear. Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., the manufacturer of the popular diabetic medication, was ko’d by the jury, and ordered to pay more than $2 million to a plaintiff who claimed that Actos caused her bladder cancer. This was the latest Actos trial over bladder cancer…
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 before one judge for coordinated pretrial…
Bayer Healthcare and Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceuticals subsidiary, the manufacturers of the novel oral anticoagulant (NOACS) Xarelto, are exposed to several Xarelto product liability personal injury lawsuits, filed nationwide. These have brought by folks who suffered a catastrophic injury or death due to uncontrollable bleeding side effects while on…