Kenneth Collins, a Kentucky resident, has filed a Stryker Rejuvenate recall lawsuit against Howmedica Osteonics Corp., doing business as Stryker Orthopaedics. The complaint was filed on June 26, 2013 and is currently proceeding in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky under... Read More

Boehringer Ingelheim's controversial Pradaxa anticoagulant is the subject of new litigation. The plaintiff is filing the lawsuit on behalf of her deceased husband, who allegedly died as a result of using the product. The Pradaxa death lawsuit, filed on June 21, has been added to... Read More

Twenty one women have filed a Mirena birth control lawsuit against Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals in California Superior Court. The products liability claim was brought on June 7, 2013 and alleges that the defendants manufactured a defective intrauterine device marketed as Mirena, which caused the plaintiffs... Read More

On June 24, 2013, an estate administrator filed a GranuFlo wrongful death lawsuit against Fresenius in Suffolk Superior Civil Court. The plaintiff represents the estate of a deceased Alabama woman who allegedly died as a direct result of receiving NaturaLyte and/or GranuFlo during her dialysis... Read More

This month, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) will determine whether more than fifty product liability lawsuits alleging Byetta and Januvia caused pancreatic cancer should be consolidated into multidistrict litigation (MDL) proceedings. The JPML will hear oral arguments for and against consolidating Byetta, Janumet,... Read More

A plaintiff is seeking $10 million in damages in the latest Actos lawsuit, filed in Lafayette District Court in Louisiana on June 26, 2013. Anthony Vavalle, a 60-year-old New York resident, was prescribed Actos to treat Type II diabetes in December 2008. By July 2010, he... Read More

A Zimmer knee lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. It is the latest complaint concerning Zimmer's NexGen range of knee implants, taking the total number of product liability cases brought against the firm to more than... Read More

On May 6, 2013, a Zimmer hip revision surgery lawsuit was filed on behalf of Daren Lady and his spouse, Debra Lady, against Zimmer Holdings, Inc. The complaint was originally filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho; however, it has been... Read More