Another lawsuit filed against drug maker Merck & Co. regarding side effects of the male pattern baldness drug Propecia has been consolidated in the drug's ongoing multidistrict litigation case. The lawsuit was filed by a plaintiff who claims that Propecia caused him to suffer sexual... Read More

A new lawsuit was filed by a vaginal mesh lawyer on behalf of Barbara McIntosh on January 7, 2013 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. The case alleges that the Lynx sling—a transvaginal mesh device manufactured by defendant Boston Scientific Corp.—led... Read More

The number of lawsuits from women alleging blood clots and other complications from Yaz has grown substantially in the wake of the stronger label warning ordered by the FDA in April 2012. A July 2012 statistics report from the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation... Read More

Represented by her Yaz lawyer, a new complaint was filed alleging severe side effects after using the Bayer manufactured contraceptive pill Yaz. The plaintiff alleges that she suffered from two pulmonary embolisms as well as other side effects. The case was filed on January 17,... Read More

A Kentucky plaintiff filed a new Pradaxa lawsuit on January 15, 2013, against defendant drug maker Boehringer Ingelheim. The lawsuit was filed in the United States' District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, the locus of the current Pradaxa multidistrict litigation case that is... Read More

The Food and Drug Administration issued a recent safety communication on January 17, 2013, regarding metal-on-metal hip replacement systems. With this announcement, the agency is updating their evaluation of potential complications associating with these devices, and notes that all-metal implants could be risky because of... Read More

A new lawsuit was filed by a Yaz plaintiff in Illinois federal court on the 17th of January, 2013 by a Florida woman who is seeking compensation for injuries she claims to have suffered after taking Yaz/Yasmin birth control. The woman filed her lawsuit against... Read More

The first DePuy ASR hip lawsuit went to trial on January 7, 2013 in Maryland state court, but was dismissed the next day. In addition to naming as defendants DePuy Orthopaedics and affiliates, the lawsuit had also brought counts against in-state defendant Chesapeake Surgical Ltd.... Read More