Pharmaceutical company Bayer has announced that it has already paid more than $402 million in Yasmin and Yaz lawsuit settlements and has set aside an additional $610.5 million to settle pending lawsuits over the controversial birth control pill. However, some independent industry analysts, including Richard... Read More

On July 20, 2012, Nebraska resident Jennifer Rood filed a lawsuit against Bayer, the manufacturer of the birth control pill Yaz. According to her Yaz attorney, Bayer is accused of failing to warn Plaintiff Rood and other consumers about the serious risks associated with Yaz.... Read More

According to a new complaint against Yaz, plaintiff Maria Cunningham, a 57-year-old woman, alleged that she suffered severe injuries due to Yaz blood clots that caused her death. The case joined the Yaz coordinated proceedings in the Superior Court of California, Los Angeles on July... Read More

A lawsuit filed by a Minnesota woman, Cathy Wagamon, claims that the plaintiff suffered a pulmonary embolism as a result of her use of the popular birth control medication. Yaz and Yasmin are both popular oral contraceptives that have been linked to pulmonary embolism, stroke,... Read More

An Illinois multidistrict litigation (MDL) was created in an effort to quickly and effectively reach a resolution in hundreds of cases in which plaintiffs have taken the steps necessary to receive compensation for Yaz injuries. Recent reports suggest that the manufacturer of Yaz and Yasmin,... Read More

Yaz and Yasmin have been popular medications since their debut on the pharmaceuticals market, and are manufactured and distributed by drug making giant Bayer Pharmaceuticals. They are different from other oral contraceptives in that they contain the synthetic hormone drospirenone, which some believe is the... Read More

According to recent reports, the manufacturer of Yaz and Yasmin—Bayer—has reached settlement agreements in at least 1,444 cases. On June 22, 2012, the parties reportedly told Chief Judge David R. Herndon that good faith negotiations are continuing. Though the number of settled cases is promising,... Read More

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in the multidistrict litigation case taking place in Illinois over the death of a wife and mother who died allegedly as the result of a stroke related to her use of Yaz. The plaintiff in the case is... Read More