A Georgia woman who suffered hip implant failure and was forced to undergo revision surgery has filed a lawsuit charging that manufacturer DePuy Orthopaedics knew of the ASR hip's flaws before her initial surgery but did not warn her, her physician, the public, or the... Read More

Four lawsuits relating to the Zimmer NexGen knee replacement system have been excluded from multidistrict litigation proceedings after it was decided on the 3rd of May, 2012, that four out of 14 contested cases should be sent back to the courts in which they were... Read More

A recently released study performed by independent North American researchers suggests that the negative repercussions from taking Zoloft may outweigh the benefits of the widely prescribed SSRI antidepressant. Researchers examined data from many other previous studies, and concluded that SSRI antidepressants proved cumulatively beneficial to... Read More

In an upsetting lawsuit filed in January of this year, plaintiff Linda Ruff alleges that the diabetes drug Actos directly resulted in her husband, Evan Ruff’s, diagnosis of bladder cancer and resulting death. Linda is suing Actos manufacturers Takeda Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilley for damages... Read More

A Washington plaintiff has become the latest to file a DePuy lawsuit after he submitted his case on the 8th of May 2012. Larry Vanyi is a resident of Washington state and allegedly experienced complications that will necessitate revision surgery after being implanted with the... Read More

A FDA advisory panel recently released an announcement stating that drug manufacturer Bayer didn’t adequately warn patients about the potential side effects of the oral contraceptive Yaz. The vote, which was cast on the 8th of December, 2011, was 21 to 5, and the advisory... Read More

A couple has filed one of many Zoloft lawsuits  in the United States’ District Court for the Northern District of Ohio both individually and on behalf of their minor son against Zoloft drugmaker Pfizer, claiming that the drug manufacturing giant’s product is responsible for the... Read More

On January 27, 2012, 54 plaintiffs filed their Propecia lawsuits jointly in the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit Court of the State of Missouri (St. Louis). Recently, the case was transferred to newly established Propecia multidistrict litigation (MDL) headquartered in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District... Read More