A complaint was filed in late July alleging that the side effects of diabetes drug Invokana caused a Texas patient to undergo a double amputation of his legs below the knee, and to develop diabetic ketoacidosis and kidney failure. Product Liability Alleged in Invokana Lawsuit... Read More

Drug manufacturer Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay $4.69 billion in damages to 22 women and their families by a St. Louis jury recently. The women charged that the company’s talcum powder products included asbestos that had caused their ovarian cancer. Talcum powder is... Read More

A suit was recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York claiming that the side effects of the Mirena intrauterine device (IUD) caused pseudotumor cerebri (PTC) and ultimately resulted in permanent injuries to the plaintiff. The defendant is Bayer... Read More

Endo Pharmaceuticals announced in early June that it and Auxilium Pharmaceuticals agreed to resolve all known cases claiming injury from its Testim testosterone gel product. Testosterone Therapy Settlements: No Details Yet Announced The companies will pay into a fund for the resolution of roughly 1,300... Read More

A California jury recently decided in favor of a woman claiming that decades of use of Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder had caused her to develop mesothelioma, a rare and often deadly form of cancer. Johnson & Johnson was ordered to $25.7 million in damages... Read More

In mid-May, a Louisiana man filed suit claiming that the side effects of Invokana (canagliflozin) resulted in a series of sores and infections that ultimately led to his left foot being amputated. The suit charges Invokana’s manufacturers, Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals,... Read More

A New Jersey jury recently ordered C.R. Bard to pay a total of $68 million in damages as a result of the complications suffered by a woman who had two of the company’s products, an Avaulta Solo mesh, and an Align Transobturator, implanted in March... Read More

A New Jersey couple was awarded $117 million in punitive and compensatory damages from drug maker Johnson & Johnson and talc company Imerys SA, in a suit where the husband alleged he had developed the deadly cancer mesothelioma after inhaling Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder-based... Read More