On March 16, 2009, Air Force veteran Jorge Ortiz and his wife welcomed their new baby daughter after a harrowing delivery at Evans Army Community Hospital in Colorado, where the mother was an active duty Air Force Captain. The childbirth – a planned C-section delivery... Read More

In late October, an Illinois man sued Invokana manufacturers Jannsen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Johnson & Johnson Co., and Mitsubishi Tanaba Pharma Corp. over injuries allegedly caused by the drug. The Invokana lawsuit seeks more than $75,000 in compensation and alleges a number of claims including product liability, defective... Read More

The United States has been named as a defendant in a new birth injury lawsuit, which was recently filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a West Virginia mother and her... Read More

An increasing number of patients have begun to file IVC filter lawsuits in the federal court system against C.R. Bard and Cook Medical, claiming the devices have the potential to migrate. Plaintiffs claim when these small metal devices drift, they can puncture the vena cava... Read More

A member of congress has sent a letter to the FDA requesting that the organization investigate whether three hospitals violated mandatory reporting policies in connection deaths related to the use of power morcellators during gynecological surgery. Michael G. Fitzpatrick, representative of the 8th district of... Read More

In a recently filed lawsuit, a Texas woman claims that congenital defects she has lived with since birth are the result of her mother's use of anti-nausea medication Zofran (ondansetron) during pregnancy. Alleging negligence, fraud, misrepresentation and breaches of express and implied warranties on the... Read More

Dr. June Colman of Houston has been accused of malpractice and improper use of vacuum suction that allegedly killed an infant boy during childbirth. The Houston Press reports that the obstetrician purportedly mismanaged the delivery at Pasadena’s Bayshore Medical Center, after gruesome details of the... Read More

A couple has filed a lawsuit involving a power morcellator, alleging the device led to the spread of a potentially deadly uterine cancer in the wife. The couple further asserts that the manufacturer of this device, Storz America, failed to provide proper warning about the... Read More