According to the complaint drawn up by an Alabama woman and her husband’s vaginal mesh lawyer, she was implanted with products manufactured by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Ethicon, Inc. on February 6, 2008. She was later implanted with a product manufactured by Boston Scientific... Read More

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in the multidistrict litigation case taking place in Illinois over the death of a wife and mother who died allegedly as the result of a stroke related to her use of Yaz. The plaintiff in the case is... Read More

In her Pinnacle hip replacement lawsuit, plaintiff Glennie Faulkner of Michigan alleges that she was forced to undergo revision surgery after the failure of her Pinnacle implant. Faulkner filed her lawsuit on July 11, 2012 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of... Read More

After the FDA received an anonymous internal memo citing a high number of instances of cardiac arrest linked to NaturaLyte and GranuFlo, the FDA issued an investigation into the manufacturer, a German company called Fresenius. According to the memo, some doctors were not taking into... Read More

Preclinical animal studies first identified the link connecting Actos with bladder cancer in 2005. Later, a highly publicized study, known as the PROactive clinical trial, revealed that patients taking Actos developed bladder cancer at a rate 2.5 times higher than patients receiving a placebo. The... Read More

A study has found that the medications Pradaxa and Warfarin have similar bleeding rates after surgery takes place. The American Heart Association published the study in its journal, Circulation, and the information took into account the RE-LY study the FDA used to approve the medication... Read More

The newly established Zoloft multidistrict litigation (MDL) was created to streamline pretrial procedures in Zoloft lawsuits such as discovery, evidentiary questions, and motion practice by consolidating all federal Zoloft cases in a single court before a single judge. In this case the MDL is under... Read More

A new lawsuit in the Zimmer MDL charges that Massachusetts resident Kathleen Drago was forced to undergo double Zimmer knee revision surgery after the failure of NexGen CR-Flex devices in both her left and right knees. The lawsuit was filed against Zimmer, et al. on... Read More