On November 25, Bloomberg News reported that HCA Holdings, which is one of the country’s largest hospital networks with 280 hospitals and clinics both here and England, will halt the use of power morcellators in hysterectomy or fibroid tumor removals. The power morcellation ban came... Read More

A recent case management order in the Effexor multidistrict litigation has set a schedule to move cases toward the first round of trials. In the November 18, 2014, order, Judge Cynthia Rufe of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, directed that fourteen bellwether... Read More

A family from Calgary, Canada has filed a cerebral palsy lawsuit that demands $12 million in compensatory damages for their young daughter’s medical complications. The birth injury complaint claims that doctors were negligent during the labor and delivery of the now two-year-old toddler. The plaintiffs... Read More

On November 17, 2014, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) published its regular report, including data regarding the Granuflo dialysis lawsuits consolidated before U.S. District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock. According to the report, there are now 2,221 cases filed against Granuflo manufacturer Fresenius... Read More

A New York couple who had filed a Botox cerebral palsy lawsuit claimed that the treatment resulted in their son’s development of life-threatening complications. A jury agreed with their allegations and recently awarded the family $6.75 million. The verdict was announced in the U.S. District... Read More

Federal jurors in Charleston, West Virginia delivered another landmark transvaginal mesh trial verdict on November 20 – marking Boston Scientific’s second trial loss in just a few weeks. The vaginal mesh manufacturer was ordered to pay $18.5 million in compensation to four women who claimed they... Read More

Amid international concerns that testosterone therapies like Androgel, AndroDerm, Axiron, and Testim are over-prescribed with unknown consequences, the European Medicines Agency has issued an updated statement on their use. “The product information should make it clear that testosterone should only be used when an abnormally low... Read More

A lawsuit that alleges the drug Actos causes bladder cancer has resulted in a bittersweet verdict for the plaintiff, Richard Myers, a retired bakery worker. Although the jury concluded that Takeda Pharmaceuticals must pay $155,000 for destroying documents crucial to numerous lawsuits, Myers could have... Read More