Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and Eli Lilly & Co. won a partial but sizable reprieve from their $9 billion punitive damages Actos verdict in the Louisiana case of Terence Allen v. Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America Inc. Mr. Allen, a former hardware store manager from Attica, NY, alleged... Read More

On December 4, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation will meet in Charleston, South Carolina to consider a motion filed by a group of plaintiffs to centralize all Xarelto bleeding injury lawsuits filed throughout the federal court system as part of an MDL (Multidistrict... Read More

An eighty-seven year old California man who suffered life threatening Xarelto bleeding side effects has filed suit against Bayer Healthcare and Janssen Research and Development. The Xarelto injury lawsuit was filed in United States District Court, Northern District of California on October 9, 2014, and... Read More

Intuitive Surgical, Inc., a pioneer in the use of robotic surgery, was hit in May 2014 with a robotic surgery lawsuit by a Tennessee woman. The lawsuit, filed on May 8, 2014 in United States District Court, Northern District of California, pits the plaintiff, a... Read More

AstraZeneca, the global biopharmaceutical company, disclosed in their second quarter financial report last week that while it has resolved 84 Byetta lawsuits pending in California, it still faces over 400 lawsuits in various state and federal courts nationwide. The Byetta lawsuits allege that former users... Read More

Drug giants Takeda Pharmaceuticals and partner Eli Lilly say that a jury acted with passion and prejudice, rather than reason and evidence, to grant an award of $9 billion to a married couple in a landmark Actos bladder cancer lawsuit verdict. In April, after only... Read More

Faced with 500 pending Risperdal lawsuits, attorneys for Johnson & Johnson are saying many of the cases should be thrown out because the plaintiffs waited too long to file them. The lawyers for Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of J&J, have filed a motion for a... Read More

The last of three bellwether trials involving Bard Avaulta vaginal mesh has been cancelled with the parties agreeing to settle the product liability case just weeks before it was set to begin on May 19th. In a statement issued by the court on April 29th... Read More