Over the past several years, the Da Vinci surgical system has been implicated in several civil lawsuits, primarily due to its alleged propensity to cause unwanted damage to surrounding tissue and organs during minimally-invasive abdominal and pelvic surgeries. Accordingly, plaintiffs from across the United States... Read More

A Chicago couple has filed a cerebral palsy lawsuit against a Puerto Rico hospital, a doctor and his wife, alleging medical negligence caused their infant daughter to be born with numerous birth injuries that ultimately lead to her untimely death. Cerebral palsy is a disorder that... Read More

This summer, health regulators at the FDA will hold a meeting to address the legalities of off-label drug promotion by pharmaceutical companies. Any medications that are prescribed for unapproved uses that have not been clinically demonstrated as safe and effective are considered “off-label.” According to... Read More

The widow of a man who died of a heart attack after receiving AndroGel testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the product’s manufacturer. Though the plaintiff resides in Nevada, the Androgel lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for... Read More

Evidence of cannabidiol’s medical potential continues to grow, with the FDA approving the marijuana-based compound as a treatment for neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE).  According to Healio.com, the federal agency recently granted cannabidiol (CBD) orphan drug designation as means to reduce the devastating neurological effects suffered by... Read More

On March 19, 2015, one of the most recent victims of the alleged dangerous drug known as Xarelto (rivaroxaban) filed a personal injury lawsuit in United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (Gainesville division). In his allegations, the plaintiff asserts he was... Read More

A plaintiff who has added his Granuflo lawsuit to the growing multidistrict litigation currently underway in Massachusetts alleges that use of Granuflo or Naturalyte during his dialysis treatment led to a heart attack at a Fresenius clinic. The plaintiff links his injuries, which occurred in 2012,... Read More

The use of power morcellators has come under increasing public scrutiny recently, following recommendations against their use from the FDA and a public awareness campaign launched by Drs. Amy Reed and her husband, Hooman Noorchashm. Some patients have already filed lawsuits against the manufacturers, claiming... Read More