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.
The presence of asbestos in talc powder has been at the heart of a slew of lawsuits filed against Johnson & Johnson with regard to their Baby Powder and Shower to Shower products. Consumers who have filed product liability lawsuits against the company say that... Read More
The first bellwether trial for the multidistrict litigation (MDL) consolidating all federally filed proton pump inhibitor (PPI) lawsuits has been scheduled for November 15, 2021. This MDL has centralized lawsuits filed against the makers of Prilosec, Nexium, Prevacid, Protonix, and other PPI medications. Currently, there... 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
Nancy Cabibi and her husband, Phil, filed a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson that alleged that the defendants’ talc powder products caused her diagnosis of deadly mesothelioma. Recently, a California jury agreed with the allegations in the lawsuit and ordered J&J to pay $40.3 million... Read More
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
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
