Xarelto bleeding complications may have been falsified, according to a recent report on clinical trial misconduct. The report suggests major issues with one early study on the drug, including signs that data regarding the safety of the anticoagulant may have been falsified and subsequently destroyed.... Read More

A January 21, 2015 order issued by Administrative Judge Kevin Dougherty of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas consolidated 75 similar Xarelto lawsuits together into one mass tort docket. The plaintiffs’ attorneys say that resolving common issues in a single district will promote more efficient prosecution... Read More

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation recently announced that all Xarelto lawsuits filed in federal courts will be centralized in the Eastern District of Louisiana, under the direction of U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon. On December 12, a transfer order was issued establishing... Read More

New blood thinners now on the market, including best-sellers Pradaxa and Xarelto, have been marketed as safer and easier to use than the long-time standard treatment, warfarin (often sold under the brand name Coumadin). However, a recent study questions whether the new drugs really offer... 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

Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, has issued a Xarelto recall. A total of 13,500 bottles of the drug are included in the recall, after microbial contamination was found in a sample. The company confirmed that a sales sample of Xarelto was contaminated after... Read More

As Xarelto lawsuits continue to be filed in federal courts across the country, one group of six plaintiffs has sought coordination of those cases into a single U.S. district court. The plaintiffs have petitioned the U.S. Judicial Panel of Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to request all... 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