The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) recently heard arguments regarding the possible consolidation of federal hernia mesh lawsuits filed against C.R. Bard and its Davol subsidiary. If the JPML decides to consolidate the cases, it would add to the growing number of multidistrict... Read More

The use of vaginal mesh surgical products has been immediately suspended in the United Kingdom. The decision comes on the heels of widespread concerns of significant, long-term health complications that have been reported by thousands of women who have received these implants to treat stress... Read More

Drug manufacturer Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay $4.69 billion in damages to 22 women and their families by a St. Louis jury recently. The women charged that the company’s talcum powder products included asbestos that had caused their ovarian cancer. Talcum powder is... Read More

A suit was recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York claiming that the side effects of the Mirena intrauterine device (IUD) caused pseudotumor cerebri (PTC) and ultimately resulted in permanent injuries to the plaintiff. The defendant is Bayer... Read More

Five bellwether trials have been scheduled for plaintiffs who filed federal lawsuits against Sanofi-Aventis regarding the alleged complications of the defendants’ drug, Taxotere. The U.S. District Judge presiding over the Taxotere lawsuits has scheduled the group of trials to begin in May 2019. Bellwether trials... Read More

Endo Pharmaceuticals announced in early June that it and Auxilium Pharmaceuticals agreed to resolve all known cases claiming injury from its Testim testosterone gel product. Testosterone Therapy Settlements: No Details Yet Announced The companies will pay into a fund for the resolution of roughly 1,300... Read More

A California jury recently decided in favor of a woman claiming that decades of use of Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder had caused her to develop mesothelioma, a rare and often deadly form of cancer. Johnson & Johnson was ordered to $25.7 million in damages... Read More

Xarelto might not be more effective than aspirin when it comes to stroke prevention, and it may carry a higher risk of bleeding. That’s according to a study recently published by Canadian researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine on May 16, 2018. The... Read More