The first bellwether trial for the multidistrict litigation (MDL) consolidating all federally filed proton pump inhibitor (PPI) lawsuits has been scheduled for November 15, 2021. This MDL has centralized lawsuits filed against the makers of Prilosec, Nexium, Prevacid, Protonix, and other PPI medications. Currently, there... Read More

There are now at least 13,269 product liability lawsuits filed with regard to Nexium and other popular heartburn medications, according to a status report released by a federal court on August 5, 2019. Those complaints are pending in the multidistrict litigation (MDL) created to streamline... Read More

As more patients become aware of the potential complications associated with proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), there have been an increasing number of lawsuits filed against the drug manufacturers. Currently, there are more than 8,400 lawsuits pending regarding the serious complications Nexium, Prilosec, Protonix, Prevacid, and... Read More

Less than six months after rejecting a request to centralize the management of cases against the manufacturers of Nexium and other proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) in early August moved to coordinate the cases before Claire C. Cecchi,... Read More

Patients who used Nexium and other proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) for heartburn via prescription ran a higher risk of dying than patients prescribed other drugs, a recent study indicates. Researchers in BMJ Open, a medical journal, compared the outcomes of patients who took Nexium and... Read More

Taking combinations of medications can increase the risk of side effects like dizziness and drowsiness, which can be little more than a minor nuisance. But researchers have recently discovered that combining two widely used drugs can have a deadly complication. The heartburn drug Prevacid (lansoprazole)... Read More

George Mullen demands compensation from AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, claiming that the medication Nexium has caused him to suffer from chronic kidney disease. He filed his product liability lawsuit on August 26, 2016 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The plaintiff’s... Read More

A plaintiff alleges long-term use of the heartburn drug Nexium led to kidney failure and the need for dialysis and a kidney transplant. The plaintiff took Nexium for nearly five years before being diagnosed with interstitial nephritis, a condition that causes inflammation of the kidneys... Read More