Dawn Snyder is an attorney as well as a regular contributor at Injury Lawyer News. Her special areas of interest include the relationship between the FDA and the pharmaceutical companies, circumstances surrounding voluntary recalls, and the settlement process.
An Alabama couple has filed a Zofran lawsuit on behalf of their toddler. The suit was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama and names GlaxoSmithKline, LLC (GSK) as the defendant. The suit is one of approximately 40 complaints... Read More
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked Pfizer, Inc. to change the safety warnings on its Zoloft packaging. If Pfizer complies, the label change will be Pfizer’s first acknowledgement that a woman’s prenatal use of the antidepressant may cause heart defects in newborns.... Read More
Earlier this month, Kevin Gross filed an IVC filter lawsuit against C.R. Bard, Inc. and Bard Peripheral Vascular in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiff, a resident of North Wales, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, allegedly suffered serious injury from a... Read More
A Kentucky man has filed Pinnacle hip lawsuit in the DePuy Pinnacle multidistrict litigation (MDL). The MDL is pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, located in Dallas. The plaintiff, Ronald G. Aller, of Harrodsburg, Mercer County, KY, seeks... Read More
Cooley Dickinson Hospital now faces a delivery room errors lawsuit filed by the family of Pamela J. Sampson, a 32-year-old Hadley woman who died in 2013. Sampson left behind a now 19-month-old boy and her family alleges that the hospital was negligent in missing signs... Read More
The parents of a Texas boy who was injured by perinatal asphyxia have filed a birth injury lawsuit against the hospitals and doctors who delivered and treated him. They blame the medical staff for breaching numerous standards of care, leading to the child’s severe and permanent... Read More
Each year, more than 200,000 women undergo surgeries performed with power morcellators and an alarming number have gone on to develop advanced cancer. One of these women, Denise Whitfield, recently filed a morcellator-related cancer lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District... Read More
As Biomet hip settlements are being finalized, more plaintiffs are bringing claims. On January 16, 2015, a South Carolina man filed the most recent Biomet hip lawsuit in the multidistrict litigation (MDL) pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.... Read More
