Boehringer Ingelheim's controversial Pradaxa anticoagulant is the subject of new litigation. The plaintiff is filing the lawsuit on behalf of her deceased husband, who allegedly died as a result of using the product. The Pradaxa death lawsuit, filed on June 21, has been added to... Read More

On June 24, 2013, an estate administrator filed a GranuFlo wrongful death lawsuit against Fresenius in Suffolk Superior Civil Court. The plaintiff represents the estate of a deceased Alabama woman who allegedly died as a direct result of receiving NaturaLyte and/or GranuFlo during her dialysis... Read More

This month, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) will determine whether more than fifty product liability lawsuits alleging Byetta and Januvia caused pancreatic cancer should be consolidated into multidistrict litigation (MDL) proceedings. The JPML will hear oral arguments for and against consolidating Byetta, Janumet,... Read More

A Zimmer knee lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. It is the latest complaint concerning Zimmer's NexGen range of knee implants, taking the total number of product liability cases brought against the firm to more than... Read More

A lawsuit has been filed against Bayer Healthcare, in which four women allege the company's Yaz birth control pill caused deep vein thrombosis (DVT). It is the latest Yaz DVT lawsuit to accuse Bayer of failing to warn consumers of the risks associated with the... Read More

One of the growing list of DePuy ASR hip replacement lawsuits has been given an early trial date as part of 'bellwether' hearings designed to gauge juries' reaction to the evidence. The trial – which will be at least the third lawsuit in the ongoing... Read More

A knee implant patient filed a complaint alleging serious injuries as a direct result of receiving a defective Zimmer NexGen Total Knee Replacement System. The Zimmer knee implant lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on May 20,... Read More

The controversial Medtronic INFUSE bone graft treatment may increase the risk of cancer, according to two independent studies published this month in The Annals of Internal Medicine. The research also found the product to have no benefit over traditional spine surgery. The studies contain data... Read More