News of more legal action related to pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim's controversial Pradaxa anticoagulant has emerged from East St. Louis, Illinois. The Pradaxa lawsuit, filed on June 17th, was added to the ongoing multidistrict litigation (MDL 2385) now underway at the U.S. District Court for... Read More

A Zoloft heart defects lawsuit brought before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania alleges that the antidepressant drug, manufactured by Pfizer, Inc., harmed a Pennsylvania mother's unborn daughter, causing congenital heart defects that required surgical correction. The suit was filed... Read More

Lawsuits filed in U.S. District Courts against hip implant maker Stryker Corporation over the recalled Rejuvenate and ABG II hip components have been centralized in Minnesota as multidistrict litigation, or MDL. In an order filed June 12, 2013, the federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrct Litigation... Read More

A man from Fontana, California has filed a Zimmer hip failure lawsuit, alleging the company knowingly marketed a defective device. The lawsuit was filed on May 13, 2013, at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The Zimmer hip lawsuit plaintiff allegedly... Read More

A man from Texas has filed a lawsuit against Boehringer Ingelheim, alleging their blood-thinning medication Pradaxa resulted in severe gastrointestinal bleeding. Filed on May 2nd in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, it's the latest Pradaxa gastrointestinal bleed lawsuit in which... Read More

In a lawsuit filed on June 3rd, 2013, an Iowa man is seeking damages from Fresenius Medical Care, manufacturers of the dialysate GranuFlo. The plaintiff suffered a heart attack – allegedly as a result of using GranuFlo – that led to a fatal car accident. The... Read More

A couple from Layton, Utah are suing Takeda, the makers of diabetes drug Actos, after the husband was diagnosed with bladder cancer. The lawsuit was filed on June 4, 2013, at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana as part of the... Read More

A lawsuit filed on May 30, 2013 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania alleges the makers of antidepressant Zoloft are liable for the wrongful death of the plaintiff's daughter. The woman had been prescribed the drug while pregnant. According to... Read More