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In late May, Amy Reed, a patient who fought the use of morcellation in fibroid surgery and hysterectomies, died of the cancer that had been inadvertently spread by use of a power morcellator in surgery to remove uterine fibroids. She was 44 years old and... Read More

In the last week of April, the first bellwether trial involving lawsuits over alleged injuries caused by Xarelto (rivaroxoaban) began with the process of jury selection. The case is one of 16,000 Xarelto lawsuits under a federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) before District Judge Eldon Fallon in the... Read More

In mid-March, a joint lawsuit was filed against the manufacturers of Invokana alleging that the side effects of the drug caused diabetic ketoacidosis and kidney failure. The suit also alleges that the manufacturers, Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Janssen, failed to warn both patients and... Read More

A settlement master was recently appointed by the U.S. District Judge presiding over all the federal Abilify lawsuits that claim the medication caused patients prescribed it to develop serious gambling addictions and engage in additional compulsive behaviors. Abilify lawsuits centralized In October of last year,... Read More

In early February, plaintiffs in product liability cases involving the drug Farxiga (dapagliflozin) requested that all cases filed with federal court system over the side effects of the drug be moved to multidistrict litigation (MDL) in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.... Read More

In a recently published study, researchers who examined the effects of the three anticoagulants Xarelto, Eliquis, and Pradaxa conclude that Xarelto was associated with more incidents of gastrointestinal bleeding than the other two. All three of the drugs, however, were associated with increased GI bleeding.... Read More

The U.S. District Judge presiding over all U.S. DePuy Pinnacle hip replacement lawsuits recently cut the amount of punitive damages awarded to plaintiffs by roughly half, from approximately $1 billion to $500 million. The judge upheld the full amount of compensatory damages. $1 billion in... Read More