A Florida resident accuses a certified nurse midwife of negligence that allegedly caused her child to suffer brachial plexus injuries during childbirth. The complaint was brought in the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida, where the plaintiffs are demanding a jury trial.... Read More

A NaturaLyte lawsuit alleging heart injury was filed on July 1 of this year on behalf of a decedent who experienced a “severe adverse cardiovascular event” while receiving dialysis treatment at a Fresenius clinic. According to the complaint, Marshall Russell Phillips was stricken on July... Read More

A Bergen County mother and father have filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Jersey in what may be the very latest in the growing tally of lawsuits stemming from the use of anti-nausea medication Zofran (ondansetron) by pregnant women... Read More

A recently published study on the birth injury risk connected to gestational diabetes has singled out a mother’s use of glyburide (DiaBeta) versus insulin as being linked to complications in newborns. A higher risk of respiratory distress, hypoglycemia, and other birth injuries and anomalies was... Read More

A number of plaintiffs from Tucson, AZ have filed a joint Actos lawsuit against Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Their lawsuit will join thousands currently pending under multidistrict litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. Garry and Ruth Buchman are among the group... Read More

A widow from Missouri has filed a Xarelto lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, Janssen Research & Development, Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, et al. to demand that the defendants be held liable for the death of her husband. Dixie A. Smith, surviving spouse of Jay Christopher Smith,... Read More

Two medical professors at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice — and the co-chairs of the steering committee of Preventing Overdiagnosis, an international conference that will be held at the National Institutes of Health in September — recently co-authored an editorial on... Read More

The Irish Times reported in June that a 29 year-old woman, Ruth Carmel Foley, who was born with dyskinetic cerebral palsy has garnered a USD $2.32 million cerebral palsy settlement in her lawsuit against HSE (the Health Service Executive). The lawsuit was brought as a... Read More