A married couple from Alabama filed a lawsuit against transvaginal mesh manufacturers American Medical Systems, et al, Endo Pharmaceuticals, et al, and Boston Scientific Corporation on October 25, 2012. The wife plaintiff is claiming personal injuries, pain, and suffering, and the couple's lawyer claims that... Read More

Several women are seeking compensation for side effects they have experienced allegedly as a result of the oral contraceptive sold as Yaz or Yasmin. They are seeking compensatory, punitive, and exemplary damages from drug maker Bayer, based on claims that the popular fourth-generation birth control... Read More

The wife of a man who died has chosen to file a Pradaxa lawsuit on his behalf. Mary Cornwell, a resident of Ohio, filed her case against Boehringer Ingelheim—the manufacturer of Pradaxa—in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois on October 10,... Read More

One of the most recent transvaginal mesh lawsuits was filed on October 19, 2012 in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California. The plaintiff alleges that the defendants—C.R. Bard and Coloplast—manufactured products that didn’t serve their designed purposes. She received the vaginal... Read More

A DePuy hip lawyer filed a new lawsuit on behalf of plaintiff Bruce Pearn against the hip replacement manufacturer on October 19, 2012, in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. The plaintiff received the DePuy ASR hip system in 2008 and had suffered from... Read More

A Chantix litigation filed by the family of a man who committed suicide after using the smoking cessation medication was settled prior to trial. Mark Whitely’s family sued the manufacturer of Chantix, Pfizer, Inc., after he committed suicide in 2007. According to the filing, Whitely... Read More

A new plaintiff has filed suit against Propecia's drug maker Merck & Co. The plaintiff filed his lawsuit in the ongoing multidistrict litigation case which is proceeding in the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn. This multidistrict litigation case combines a large number of... Read More