Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals have agreed to settle Topamax birth defect lawsuits. Plaintiffs alleged that Topamax epilepsy drug side effects birth defects including cleft lips, cleft palates and other congenital malformations. The Topamax global settlements were announced last week in Pennsylvania state court, stating that agreements…
DePuy Orthopaedics is exposed to several thousand DePuy Pinnacle hip lawsuits, which allege defective metal hip design and early failure of the implant. The first federal bellwether trials for the metal-on-metal hip replacement system are set to begin in September 2014, in the Northern District of Texas in Dallas. Amost…
After 33 grueling days of hotly contested trial testimony, the first federal Actos bladder cancer lawsuit trial has ended. The jury is scheduled to hear closing arguments on Monday and then deliberations will begin. Federal Actos Trial: The Details Terrance Allen’s trial began on February 3, as the first chosen…
Good news for Transvaginal mesh and sling plaintiffs and it’s more bad news for Johnson and Johnson’s (J&J) Ethicon division in its ongoing vaginal mesh debacle. The company will have to pay out again, in these many cases to go to court over its allegedly defective transvaginal mesh products and…
General Motors (GM) Co., is exposed to a barrage of lawsuits in the U.S. and Canada over faulty ignition switches. According to sources, GM was served with the first wrongful-death suit involving two fatalities in a 2006 car crash. GM recalled 1.6 million vehicles in February. Plaintiff Cobalt Death Claims…
More 30 AndroGel lawsuits filed in Northern District of Illinois federal court will be centralized before U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly. The testosterone injury lawsuits allege that men suffered heart attacks, strokes and blood clots that were caused by side effects of the testosterone treatment. The Executive Committee in…
According to a New York Times investigation, the engineers at General Motors knew about a dangerous and faulty ignition switch back in 2009. At a meeting on May 15, 2009, they knew that data in the black boxes of Chevrolet Cobalts confirmed a potentially fatal defect existed in thousands of…
According to the U.S. federal court where the Stryker Rejuvenate hip lawsuits have been consolidated, the cases in the multidistrict litigation (MDL) will be ready for trial during the summer of 2015. Stryker Rejuvenate cases, are heading to early trial dates, known as “bellwether” trials, which helps the parties determine…
AbbVie, the manufacturer of AndroGel, is exposed to another product liability lawsuit. Kimberly Dula, from Georgia claims that the company failed to warn about the heart risks from AndroGel. Dula claims that he suffered three heart attacks as a result of using the testosterone gel. 49 year old Dula filed…
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 for the Central District of…