A wrongful death lawsuit was filed in mid September by the family of a Tennessee woman who was prescribed Farxiga for type 2 diabetes, alleging that side effects of the diabetes medication caused the kidney failure that killed her. Farxiga Side Effects Said to Cause... 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

Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has been hit with another courtroom loss in its ongoing talcum powder litigation. Last week, jurors in Los Angeles ordered the company to pay a record $417 million verdict to a 63-year woman who alleged that her terminal ovarian cancer... Read More

Endo Pharmaceuticals has recently announced that it will set aside another $775 million for plaintiffs who have filed vaginal mesh injury lawsuits. This addition brings the total the plaintiffs are expected to receive to $2.6 billion. The new total is expected to resolve all or... Read More

The maker of testosterone enhancer AndroGel is legally liable for concealing the risk of heart attack, according to the results of a recent case. Abbvie Inc. was ordered to pay $150 million in punitive damages because it did not represent AndroGel’s safety profile accurately to... 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

In late June, a wrongful death suit was filed against Johnson & Johnson and its Ethicon subsidiary alleging that infections and related complications associated with Ethicon’s Physiomesh patch caused a Georgia man’s death. Design defects alleged The suit was brought on behalf of William Stanley... Read More

A widower and his family had been hoping to hold pharmaceutical companies liable for the death of 67-year-old Sharyn M. Orr. The family had filed a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson and Bayer, alleging that the defendants’ drug Xarelto had caused Orr’s fatal brain hemorrhage.... Read More