Twenty one women have filed a Mirena birth control lawsuit against Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals in California Superior Court. The products liability claim was brought on June 7, 2013 and alleges that the defendants manufactured a defective intrauterine device marketed as Mirena, which caused the plaintiffs... Read More

U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel has appointed four attorneys to serve in leadership roles in multidistrict litigation (MDL) No. 2434, which centralizes federal Mirena birth control lawsuits alleging similar injuries and complications. The judicial order was given on May 22, 2013, in the U.S. District... Read More

Many plaintiffs have filed lawsuits against Bayer Pharmaceuticals regarding the Mirena intrauterine device (IUD). Often, when a large number of lawsuits that share commonalities are filed against the same defendants, consolidation of the lawsuits offers a means of more effective coordination. Such is the case... Read More

More than 47,000 adverse event reports regarding the Mirena IUD have been submitted to the FDA, according to recently-released data. Most reports relate to migration or expulsion of the device, as well as more serious Mirena side effects such as perforation of the uterus and... Read More

A woman in Halifax, Nova Scotia filed suit against Bayer on April 23, 2013 and requested certification of the suit as a class action.  If granted, the Mirena class action lawsuit will proceed on behalf of the plaintiff and of all of the women in Canada who... Read More

On April 16, Kansas resident Jessica Caruthers filed a Mirena IUD lawsuit against Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, alleging severe injuries. The plaintiff claims that Bayer designed, manufactured and marketed a defective product and failed to warn about its latent dangers. Her Mirena lawyer filed the case in the U.S.... Read More

“If you want to have a true, care-free birth control that is effective for up to five years, the Mirena IUD may be the best option,” writes Michael Bomberger for Hive Media on April 5th, 2013. However, this is not the rosy picture that plaintiffs intend to... Read More

On April 8, 2013, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) ordered all federal Mirena lawsuits consolidated into the Southern District of New York for pre-trial proceedings. Plaintiffs, represented by their Mirena lawyer, petitioned the JPML for consolidation on January 16, 2013, arguing that... Read More