Plaintiff Linda Gross, a South Dakota nurse who filed a vaginal mesh lawsuit against Ethicon and parent company Johnson & Johnson (J&J), was recently awarded $7.76 million in punitive damages by a New Jersey jury. Gross initially sought compensation for transvaginal mesh complications after suffering... Read More

On December 29, 2011, the U.S. Judicial Panel for Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) centralized all federal Actos lawsuits into one court in the Western District of Louisiana. Judge Rebecca F. Doherty was appointed to oversee the proceedings. Since then, Judge Doherty has made it clear that... Read More

A Utah couple filed a new Zoloft birth defects lawsuit on February 26, 2013. The case is proceeding in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the location of the current Zoloft MDL (multidistrict litigation). The plaintiffs claim that because the mother took... Read More

A new Zimmer hip implant lawsuit was filed in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, by Richard and Bonnie Weiner. The couple claims that Bonnie's defective Zimmer Durom Cup hip replacement devices caused her serious complications that include metallosis. Eventually, Bonnie received surgery to remove... Read More