Nevada resident Anta Ealy filed a Naturalyte lawsuit against Fresenius Medical Care, alleging that side effects from the dialysate caused her mother’s untimely death. She brought her products liability/personal injury claim on behalf of the decedent, Francis Ealy, in New York district court on August... Read More

The Wall Street Journal reports that off-label antipsychotic use in nursing homes is a major concern, as the U.S. government has lobbied health care providers to curtail non-approved use of these drugs in senior patients based on a heightened risk of injury and death. The... Read More

A Pradaxa lawsuit filed in Texas alleges the plaintiff suffered a stroke and internal bleeding due to the drug, an anticoagulant. The complaint, filed against Pradaxa’s manufacturer Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Boehringer), also alleges the defendant produced a dangerous drug, negligently manufactured it, failed to... Read More

The controversial diabetes drugs marketed as Januvia, Janumet, Byetta and Victoza all belong to the same class of medications known as incretin mimetics. Patients have reported life-threatening side effects from each, including chronic and acute pancreatitis – a serious condition that is often a precursor... Read More

On August 27, 2013, Tina Nunn, both individually and on behalf of the estate of her deceased husband Earin Blossom, filed a complaint against Fresenius Medical Care – manufacturers of the now recalled Granuflo and Naturalyte dialysis products. Dockets in the U.S. District Court, Northern... Read More

Amid an ongoing FDA investigation into complications with da Vinci robotic surgery, the agency has recently announced a Class 2 recall on 30 da Vinci robots that may not have been properly tested to meet compliance standards. Bloomberg reported on the da Vinci robot recall,... Read More

According to allegations in a Yaz side effects lawsuit filed by Whitney Stowe, while using the birth control, the plaintiff suffered a pulmonary embolism, resulting in hospitalization and other related injuries. Ms. Stowe filed her complaint in the U.S. District Court of Wyoming (Casper) on... Read More

A jury in Charleston, West Virginia – site of the federal Pelvic Repair System Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2187 – ordered C.R. Bard to pay Donna Cisson $2 million in damages over injuries related to their Avaulta transvaginal mesh. The vaginal mesh lawsuit award... Read More