According to the federal district court judge in Florida who is presiding over a DePuy hip implant lawsuit, the case must be sent back to the state court because it includes a non-diverse defendant. Earlier this month, Judge Moody of the U.S. District Court for... Read More

Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, has issued a Xarelto recall. A total of 13,500 bottles of the drug are included in the recall, after microbial contamination was found in a sample. The company confirmed that a sales sample of Xarelto was contaminated after... Read More

Recently, a federal judge issued a ruling allowing new Effexor birth defect lawsuits to be directly filed into the multidistrict litigation (MDL). The MDL, which consolidates lawsuits of a similar nature for the purpose of improving efficiency, was formed in 2013 after nine product liability... Read More

Stryker Rejuvenate hip settlements have been reached in 20 of 21 cases that have completed stage II of court ordered mediation, according to a court document issued earlier this month. The cases are part of a multi-county litigation (MCL) taking place in Bergen County, NJ... Read More

Thousands of women have filed lawsuits against Bayer, maker of the Mirena hormonal intrauterine device, over undisclosed IUD risks. A study recently published by the American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology examines whether age is a factor in the expulsion of hormonal versus copper IUDs. It... Read More

As Xarelto lawsuits continue to be filed in federal courts across the country, one group of six plaintiffs has sought coordination of those cases into a single U.S. district court. The plaintiffs have petitioned the U.S. Judicial Panel of Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to request all... Read More

When the da Vinci robotic surgery system was first introduced to the marketplace, hospitals touted it as a means of making surgeries safer for patients by reducing complications and improving precision. However, as increasing numbers of patients complain of robot surgery complications, experts are questioning... Read More

An eighty-seven year old California man who suffered life threatening Xarelto bleeding side effects has filed suit against Bayer Healthcare and Janssen Research and Development. The Xarelto injury lawsuit was filed in United States District Court, Northern District of California on October 9, 2014, and... Read More