Whitney Taylor is a veteran journalist and regular contributor at Injury Lawyer News. Whitney is particularly interested in the impact of the pharmaceutical products impacting women such as birth control products, transvaginal mesh products, and others.
As Pradaxa lawsuits continue to mount, some of the plaintiffs filing complaints are attempting to hold additional parties accountable for injuries related to the anticoagulant drug. Nearly all the plaintiffs filing complaints are naming Boehringer Ingelheim as the primary defendant. However, The Spectator reports that... Read More
Defendants scored a victory in the first federal Ethicon vaginal mesh trial. The judge overseeing the trial, Judge Joseph R. Goodwin, entered a judgment of a matter of law after hearing the plaintiff’s case and reviewing a summary judgment motion submitted by the defendants. This... Read More
A plaintiff who filed a DePuy hip injury lawsuit in California has had his case expedited due to unforeseeable and tragic circumstances. Gary Darling filed a complaint against DePuy after experiencing severe complications with his ASR hip implant in 2010. Since that time, Darling has... Read More
Plaintiffs who have filed Ethicon vaginal mesh lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson have now slapped the company with a motion for sanctions involving thousands of missing key documents. Plaintiffs involved in the motion allege Ethicon destroyed or lost those documents that were to be a... Read More
Fresenius Medical Care, manufacturer of dialysis equipment and products, has announced a class II recall of some of their hemodialysis machines. The Fresenius dialysis recall applies only to machines in the 2008 Series. A previous recall of Fresenius dialysis products in 2012 led to a... Read More
With the outcome of thousands of lawsuits potentially at stake, the first bellwether Actos cancer trial is scheduled to begin soon in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. This trial is expected to set the tone for future Actos litigation, as plaintiffs,... Read More
Five plaintiffs have filed an Infuse bone graft lawsuit in California Superior Court, adding to the growing litigation against Infuse manufacturer Medtronic. All five of these plaintiffs allege they received the Infuse device off-label and have since suffered serious complications due to bone overgrowth, neuropathy... Read More
A plaintiff filing a new Mirena IUD migration lawsuit alleges the contraceptive device led to serious, ongoing injuries. The lawsuit was filed by Melissa Vinson on November, 12, 2013. Although the complaint was originally filed in U.S. District Court in South Carolina, the case could... Read More
