Jacky is a long-time contributor to Injury Lawyer News who believes that education is a powerful tool. She hopes to empower readers with knowledge about the pharmaceutical industry so that they may become their own best advocates.
There are now at least 13,269 product liability lawsuits filed with regard to Nexium and other popular heartburn medications, according to a status report released by a federal court on August 5, 2019. Those complaints are pending in the multidistrict litigation (MDL) created to streamline... Read More
Venus and Jason Calvert recently filed a product liability lawsuit against the makers of Zostavax, a vaccine intended to prevent shingles. It alleges that the vaccine caused the very disease it was intended to prevent. The Calverts further allege that the vaccine resulted in chronic... Read More
Thousands of plaintiffs have filed lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson, the manufacturer of Shower-to-Shower and Baby Powder products, claiming that the defendants’ talcum powder products caused ovarian cancer and mesothelioma. Recently, the U.S. District Judge presiding over the multidistrict litigation (MDL) heard arguments from the... Read More
A Vermont man suffered a heart attack just a couple of years after he first began taking the medication Uloric (febuxostat), states a product liability lawsuit filed in June of 2019. The plaintiff, Mark Gomez, filed his complaint in the U.S. District Court for the... Read More
During the past month alone, there have been more than a thousand new hernia mesh lawsuits filed in the federal court system with regard to complications from Bard, Ethicon, and Atrium hernia mesh implants. A docket report issued on June 19, 2019 indicated that there... Read More
The multidistrict litigation (MDL) proceeding against Johnson & Johnson with regard to its talcum powder products has just added a new product liability lawsuit. Plaintiff Sheryl J. Lambie joins more than 12,000 other talc powder lawsuits pending against the defendants in courts around the country.... Read More
Plaintiff Patricia Schmitz alleged in her product liability lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson and Colgate that the defendants’ talcum powder products resulted in her development of mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer. Earlier in June, a California jury agreed with Ms. Schmitz and ordered the... Read More
Plaintiff Donna Olson, 66, alleged that years of breathing in particles of talc powder manufactured by Johnson & Johnson resulted in her development of mesothelioma, a rare lung cancer caused by asbestos exposure. Jurors in New York agreed with the plaintiff and ordered the defendants... Read More
