A 12-year-old boy has achieved financial settlement of his claims against Ireland's Health Service Executive stemming from birth injuries he is alleged to have sustained at Kerry General Hospital in March of 2003. Jeremiah Daly and his mother had initiated a negligence lawsuit in which... Read More

On October 28, 2015, an Illinois man filed an Invokana lawsuit seeking to hold the manufacturer responsible for his injuries. Anthony R. Allen, from Granite City, in Madison County, IL, filed his lawsuit against Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Johnson & Johnson Co., and Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma... Read More

On October 30, 2015, a family from Alabama filed a Zofran lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), claiming that the defendants’ medication resulted in their child’s birth defects. They demand compensation in excess of $75,000 for past and future medical expenses, as well as other damages. The... Read More

For drug companies like Takeda Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly, the diabetes drug Actos has brought about unprecedented sales, untold profits and global notoriety as a “safe and effective” treatment option for adults suffering from the effects of Type II diabetes. For plaintiffs like William and... Read More

A plaintiff has filed a lawsuit in Louisiana, alleging use of Zofran during pregnancy led to birth defects in her newborn son. The complaint joins dozens of others filed against Zofran manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline, most of which are now coordinated in multidistrict litigation in U.S. District... Read More

A Stockton, California woman, Jennifer Anzo, blames the diabetes drug Invokana for the diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and resulting complications she experienced in late 2013. On October 26, 2015, she filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California against... Read More

The family of a girl born in 2001 has finally resolved their birth injury lawsuit against the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland. A co-defendant was a physician at the hospital where the girl was born. The HSE made an interim settlement of a little... Read More

The process for determining which cases from the Xarelto multidistrict litigation in the Eastern District of Louisiana will be included in a bellwether discovery pool has been determined. U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon issued a case management order on Nov. 20 outlining the selection criteria.... Read More