In late May, Amy Reed, a patient who fought the use of morcellation in fibroid surgery and hysterectomies, died of the cancer that had been inadvertently spread by use of a power morcellator in surgery to remove uterine fibroids. She was 44 years old and... Read More

A St. Louis jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a $110 million verdict in a talcum powder trial last week. The plaintiff, 62-year-old Lois Slemp, developed ovarian cancer after using the company’s Shower-to-Shower and Baby Powder for decades, and claimed she wasn’t adequately warned... Read More

In the last week of April, the first bellwether trial involving lawsuits over alleged injuries caused by Xarelto (rivaroxoaban) began with the process of jury selection. The case is one of 16,000 Xarelto lawsuits under a federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) before District Judge Eldon Fallon in the... Read More

After previously denying a motion to centralize claims alleging that the Mirena IUD causes or contributes to the development of intracranial hypertension injuries, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has reconsidered, given the growing number of federal actions pending in courtrooms across the nation.... Read More

Early last month, a Texas woman filed a product liability lawsuit against the maker of popular metal replacement hip components over injuries that she allegedly suffered after a hip replacement. The plaintiff was fitted with the Stryker Accolade and LFit v40 hip components, which were... Read More

In mid-March, a joint lawsuit was filed against the manufacturers of Invokana alleging that the side effects of the drug caused diabetic ketoacidosis and kidney failure. The suit also alleges that the manufacturers, Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Janssen, failed to warn both patients and... Read More

A settlement master was recently appointed by the U.S. District Judge presiding over all the federal Abilify lawsuits that claim the medication caused patients prescribed it to develop serious gambling addictions and engage in additional compulsive behaviors. Abilify lawsuits centralized In October of last year,... Read More

Amidst the awarding of massive jury verdicts against Johnson & Johnson regarding its talcum powder products, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reportedly taking a closer look at the possible link between long-term use of these products and the risk of ovarian cancer.... Read More