Jurors in New Jersey state court sided with the plaintiff in the Accutane lawsuit, Kamie Kendall Rees v. Hoffman-La Roche Inc. After hearing evidence and testimony from both sides, the eight-member panel of the Atlantic County Superior Court handed down a $1,587,928 judgment on March 11.... Read More

The rambling, sometimes comical list of drug side effects in TV commercials may soon be a thing of the past, as the FDA begins a new study to determine the impact of such direct-to-consumer ads. Health regulators are concerned that the list, which often names... Read More

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has ruled that all federal Lipitor diabetes lawsuits should be transferred to U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina for coordinated pretrial proceedings. The order was handed down on February 18, after it was determined that... Read More

After taking a cheap room at 1am in Jamaica Queens, the goal was to be on the first plane out before the big snow hit JFK. Unfortunately, the big snow had other ideas. At 6:30am, the Jet Blue flight crew quickly ushered everyone onto flight... Read More

Angie Derry and Rachel Long are among the ranks of young women who’ve experienced debilitating complications with the Essure birth control device – a tiny spring coil placed inside the fallopian tubes. Both women were sold on the purported benefits of this miracle contraception –... Read More

Biomet has indicated it will settle lawsuits pending in multidistrict litigation regarding its embattled M2a Magnum hip replacements. The complaints, totaling more than 800, allege that the implants are defectively designed, causing premature device failure, metal contamination and other severe complications. Reuters reports that the... Read More

The diabetes drugs Byetta, Januvia, Janumet and Victoza – all types of incretin mimetics – have been tied to an increased risk of thyroid and pancreatic cancer. Last year, federal multidistrict litigation was established to better handle the escalating litigation involving alleged incretin mimetic side... Read More

Abingdon, Virginia resident Sandra F. Danna has initiated legal proceedings against Medtronic, Inc. and Medtronic Sofamor Danek, USA, Inc., in connection with the serious harm she allegedly sustained following surgical implantation of Infuse bone growth protein. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern... Read More