Multidistrict litigation surrounding the popular birth control Yaz and side effects thereof has reached a point at which it is larger than any other multidistrict litigation case taking place in the United States. The Institute for Safe Medicine Pradtices issued their "annual report issue" of... Read More

On July 11, 2012, two Colorado women—Evelyn Heidi Cottle and Tara Goggin—filed lawsuits against Bayer for their birth control medications Yaz and Yasmin. Filed in the Southern District of Illinois, the case joins the Yaz and Yasmin MDL against manufacturer Bayer. Both women claim injuries... Read More

A woman who allegedly developed gallbladder disease from using the contraceptive Yaz filed a lawsuit against Bayer, the contraceptive's manufacturer, on August 21, 2012 in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, California. According to the lawsuit, the plaintiff was forced to undergo a cholecystectomy... Read More

Cathy Young, Katasha Nesbitt, and five other plaintiffs filed suit on the 20th of August, 2012, against Bayer Pharmaceuticals. Each of these plaintiffs claims that she suffered blood clots from Yasmin or Yaz or other serious side effects of the popular birth control medication and... Read More

Both pulmonary embolism and stroke are caused by blood clots. Blood clots have proven to be Yaz or Yasmin side effects. Yaz and Yasmin are birth control pills manufactured by Bayer. The blood clots have affected women who otherwise have no family history of blood... Read More

The parents of a teenage girl who was forced to undergo gallbladder removal surgery allegedly due to Yaz side effects have filed a lawsuit against Bayer, the manufacturer of the controversial birth control pills. The plaintiffs, Ed and Elaine Cavazos of Texas, filed the lawsuit... Read More

Five plaintiffs—Jordynn Ligocki, Aracelia Lopez, Joyce Simmons, Barbara Davenport, and Kimberly Collins—filed joint lawsuits to join the Yaz multidistrict litigation (MDL) No. 2100 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois on August 8, 2012. The plaintiffs, according to their Yaz attorneys,... Read More

Lawsuits resulting from claims that patients have suffered severe side effects as a result of their use of the popular oral contraceptives Yaz and Yasmin are likely to cost drug maker Bayer a significant sum as settlements continue to be paid out. Bayer has noted... Read More