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Bloomberg News (8/9, Feeley, Kelley) reports, “AstraZeneca Plc will pay about $198 million to settle 17,500 lawsuits, or about two-thirds of the total, alleging its antipsychotic drug Seroquel causes diabetes in some users.”

AstraZeneca “previously agreed to pay at least $55 million to resolve more than 5,500 cases alleging the company knew Seroquel could cause diabetes and failed to adequately warn patients, people familiar with those settlements said.

The consolidated Seroquel case is In re Seroquel Products Litigation, 06-MD-01769, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida (Orlando).

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Bayer drug companies have produced more than 10 million pages of documents to women suing over oral contraceptives Yasmin and Yaz.

U.S. District Judge David Herndon, is handling about 2,000 Yasmin and Yaz suits from around the nation, and he has posted an order on July 9, reminding plaintiffs of their obligation to provide name, social security number, basic facts of their claims, and authority to release medical records.

Bayer had moved a day earlier to dismiss claims of 11 plaintiffs in six suits, for lack of fact sheets.

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ACCUTANE STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME: In February 2010, Health Canada reported that it had received reports of severe skin reactions, including sometimes fatal reaction known as Stevens-Johnson Syndrome from Accutane.

At least 66 reports of Accutane skin reactions were identified by Health Canada, including adults and children, with two of the cases resulting in death.

Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) is a severe skin reaction that occurs as a side effect of several medications.

When the skin lesions affect more than 30% of the body, the condition is referred to as Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN).

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The number of Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella lawsuits that are part of a mass tort docket in New Jersey has increased significantly since the product liability cases were consolidated in February.

The number of Yaz lawsuits, Yasmin lawsuits and Ocella lawsuits centralized in Bergen County Superior Court has gone from 39 to about 400, according to court documents.

The New Jersey Yaz litigation was consolidated because of concerns about court filings, since New Jersey is the corporate headquarters in the United States for Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., which manufacturers the birth control pills.

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A Wyoming jury has awarded $3.7 million to a local man who developed lung cancer after 37 years of working for BNSF Railway.

Edward Roger Jolley claimed in his lawsuit that years of breathing in diesel fumes, silicone dust and asbestos while at work caused his cancer.

His condition is fatal. The jury found BNSF was “negligent and violated federal regulations regarding the maintenance and operations of locomotives.” Greg Tuttle , Billings Gazette 08/02/2010
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A $750,000 settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against a Jefferson County, Ill., police officer who allegedly used a stun gun unnecessarily on three teenagers and assaulted another.

According to the suit, Deputy David Bowers used the stun gun on the teens at the Southern Thirty Adolescent Center two years ago. Illinois state investigators found no wrongdoing, however, and Bowers is still employed with the department.

Staff Report, United Press International 08/03/2010
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“Roche Holding AG won reversal of a $10.5 million verdict over its Accutane [isotretinoin] acne drug because a judge improperly barred the company from using evidence about the medication’s use,” according to an appeals court ruling made in Kendall v. Hoffmann LaRoche Inc., ATL- L-8213-05, New Jersey Superior Court, Atlantic County (Atlantic City).

“Roche’s lawyers should have been able to use data about how many acne sufferers had used Accutane over the years throughout Kamie Kendall’s 2008 trial of her lawsuit over the drug, the New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division ruled,” prompting “a judge in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to delay the trial of an actor’s suit alleging the medication causes inflammatory bowel disease.”

Bloomberg News (8/6, Feeley) reports

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A lawsuit in south Texas has been filed against British Petroleum over pollutants leaking out of the company’s Texas City refinery.

The lawsuit claims more than 500,000 pounds of pollutants were released into the air when one of the compressors went offline in April.

The citizens of Texas City experienced “sinus and eye issues, coughing, feeling nauseous, and feeling lethargic,” from exposure to benzene, one of the chemicals released, the suit claims. The lawsuit seeks $10 billion in damages.

T.J. Aulds, Galveston County – The Daily News 08/04/2010
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A Friendswood attorney filed a federal lawsuit over the release of more than 500,000 pounds of pollutants — including high levels of benzene — into the air after a unit failure at BP’s Texas City refinery.

The lawsuit seeks monetary damages in the release of pollutants between April 6 and May 16, when the refinery’s ultracracker’s hydrogen compressor went offline.

BP doesn’t argue the fact that more than 250 tons of emissions were sent into the atmosphere during the 40 days. The company does take issue with claims the health of workers and residents was affected. T.J. Aulds, Galveston County – The Daily News 08/05/2010

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AstraZeneca Plc, which settled almost 4,000 product-liability cases this month involving its antipsychotic drug Seroquel through mediation, said it will keep terms of the agreements confidential.

The company, said it was defending more than 10,000 cases involving 22,500 plaintiff groups. Some of the cases were previously dismissed because plaintiffs lacked sufficient evidence to support allegations that Seroquel causes diabetes.

The company, said in the July 29 filing that by March, it had spent about $688 million defending Seroquel-related cases.

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