A Vermont man suffered a heart attack just a couple of years after he first began taking the medication Uloric (febuxostat), states a product liability lawsuit filed in June of 2019. The plaintiff, Mark Gomez, filed his complaint in the U.S. District Court for the... Read More

Venus and Jason Calvert recently filed a product liability lawsuit against the makers of Zostavax, a vaccine intended to prevent shingles. It alleges that the vaccine caused the very disease it was intended to prevent. The Calverts further allege that the vaccine resulted in chronic... Read More

Rita Fred, a widow from North Dakota, recently filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Merck, alleging that the defendants’ shingles vaccine, Zostavax, resulted in complications that led to her late husband’s death. Craig Fred was diagnosed with shingles and congestive heart failure, and subsequently died... Read More

Hundreds of product liability lawsuits regarding the shingles vaccine, Zostavax, are currently pending in the federal multidistrict litigation (MDL). Recently, U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III issued a pretrial order that requires the involved parties to file a plan that would be used to select... Read More

The Zostavax shingles vaccine is intended to prevent shingles and its serious complications. But according to a woman from California, the vaccine instead caused numerous medical problems, including vertigo, polymyalgia rheumatica, and inflammatory myopathy. Patrice Robins alleges that the side effects have caused considerable pain.... Read More

The federal Zostavax lawsuits currently pending in a multidistrict litigation (MDL) are set to begin moving through the discovery process, according to a plan recently approved by the U.S. District Judge who is overseeing the MDL. Judge Harvey Bartle III is presiding in the U.S.... Read More

Researchers from the renowned Mayo Clinic have published a study that suggests patients with chronic kidney disease may be at risk of an acute kidney injury when exposed to gadolinium dye. The acute kidney injury may become life-threatening and may require dialysis treatment. Gadolinium dye,... Read More

As news of the valsartan scandal spreads and the FDA investigation picks up steam, a growing number of concerned patients have looked into filing lawsuits against the manufacturer of the contaminated drug. The problem with valsartan first became apparent in July 2018, when European regulators... Read More