Following the untimely loss of Clarence Arrington, his surviving family members filed a Granuflo lawsuit against Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. Daniel Lemont Arrington, the plaintiff, claims that the decedent lost his life as a result of the allegedly defective dialysis products manufactured by the defendants. The... Read More

A plaintiff in Alabama has filed an Invokana complaint over the life-threatening condition she contends that the drug caused her to experience. Luana Jean Collie filed her complaint in the United States District Court, Southern District of Alabama, Southern Division on December 15, 2015. Collie’s... Read More

In the heat of debate over how antipsychotic prescriptions may impact the health of children, a new study solidifies the link between the medications and diabetes. The medical journal JAMA Psychiatry released the report of the study late last month and the results indicate that... Read More

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) in Georgetown, Guyana recently received notice of at least two medical malpractice lawsuits, one of which alleges negligence in the delivery of a stillborn child. Both of the mothers are demanding compensatory damages in excess of $20 million Guyanese... Read More

A discovery schedule has been proposed for the Bard IVC filter lawsuits currently pending under multidistrict litigation in Arizona. The schedule pertains to some of the initial cases filed in the MDL and should allow for the first federal trials to get underway during the... Read More

A Tennessee resident took legal action against the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK) in December of 2015 on behalf of her minor child. The plaintiff alleged that her baby developed a serious birth defect after she took Zofran—also known as odansetron—during her pregnancy to alleviate... Read More

Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has taken measures to resolve thousands of claims involving the company’s surgical mesh products. The device maker will set aside $120 million to resolve between 2,000 and 3,000 lawsuits, reports Bloomberg. A company spokesperson has declined to comment on the accord,... Read More

Medical advances in the field of obstetrics have changed lives of women and children all over the world. Pregnancy and childbirth are safer now than they have been at any other point in history. However, stillbirth rates are not going down - even in advanced... Read More