A new lawsuit was filed on September 6, 2012, in the Superior Court, Los Angeles County, California. California resident Lucie Skalova filed the case against manufacturer Bayer Corporation and accuses them of failing to warn about the side effects of the birth control pill before... Read More

Granuflo is a dialysis product manufactured by the German company Fresenius. The product is administered while patients are undergoing dialysis and contains ingredients that convert to bicarbonate when mixed with other substances. This is necessary to clean waste from the blood during dialysis treatment. Concerns... Read More

On August 31, 2012, a new lawsuit was filed by Robert Edwards against manufacturers DePuy Orthopedics and Johnson & Johnson accusing the companies of selling defective hip replacements devices. The case was field in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. It is alleged that... Read More

On September 5, 2012, plaintiff Darlene A. Gray's Stryker hip lawsuit was removed from the Superior Court of the State of Indiana for the County of Marion to the United States District Court, Southern District of Indiana, which is a federal court, due to federal... Read More

On September 12, 2012, Judge David R. Herndon issued a stay of all pending motions in the Pradaxa MDL until further notice, in order to take time to establish the structure of the proceedings to come, and to enable interested Pradaxa lawyers to apply for... Read More

A new complaint against Zimmer knee filed by a Zimmer knee lawyer on behalf of a plaintiff who alleges ongoing problems since receiving her device. The case was added to the federal Zimmer knee multidistrict litigation (MDL) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern... Read More

A July 2012 study in Orthopedics reports that in hip implants such as the Zimmer Durom Cup, device failure usually occurs within the first two years after implantation. A March 2012 study in the Lancet indicated failure rates for metal-on-metal hip implants two-to-four times higher... Read More