Pradaxa is a blood thinning medication that has only been on the United States’ pharmaceuticals market for about two years, but already a number of plaintiffs claim to have been injured by serious side effects of the medication. Internal bleeding is one of the major... Read More

On April 27, 2012, Florida residents Ernestine and Michael Neilson filed a lawsuit citing Zimmer knee problems. Their case, which they filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (St. Louis), took steps on January 12, 2012 to join the Zimmer... Read More

The popular SSRI antidepressant Zoloft has been implicated in yet another lawsuit. This particular suit relates to birth defects resulting from Zoloft. The plaintiffs, Heather Kathleen Edwards and her daughter Hallie, are suing drug manufacturer Pfizer for failing to properly warn about the possibility of... Read More

On May 1, 2012, a California couple – wife and husband – filed a lawsuit citing transvaginal mesh problems. The complaint, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, names Boston Scientific as defendant and alleges that the company's Obtryx Transobturator... Read More

The early stages of the pending DePuy Pinnacle Hip MDL are proceeding smoothly. Following an April 25, 2012 meeting of U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade and each side's Pinnacle hip lawyer, the judge indicated that within six weeks, a case management outline for managing the... Read More

A DePuy hip plaintiff has requested that her lawsuit be moved from the Ohio multidistrict litigation case that is currently taking place surrounding hip replacement lawsuits back to the Eastern District of Ohio, where she lives. Plaintiff Deborah Wallace filed her DePuy lawsuit with the... Read More

Yet another plaintiff has filed a lawsuit against the medical device manufacturer relating to complications from Zimmer hip implant. In the lawsuit filed on January 18, 2012, California resident Douglas Thompson claims that due to the defective design of his implant, he was forced to... Read More

A new plaintiff whose lawsuit was filed on the 30th of April, 2012, has become one of the latest litigants to see his lawsuit consolidated in the ongoing multidistrict litigation case currently taking place in the United States' District Court for the Northern District of... Read More