Earlier this month, Judge Catherine Perry of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri rendered key pretrial rulings in a pivotal DePuy Total Hip System lawsuit, sending the device maker's arguments that the plaintiff's claims were federally preempted down to defeat. Her... Read More

The safety of testosterone therapy has come under increasing scrutiny as a growing body of studies has associated these products with an increased risk of life-threatening cardiovascular events. Now, the FDA is getting involved. On September 17, 2014, an expert panel for the FDA voiced its concern... Read More

On June 25, 2014, a Corpus Christi, Texas widow filed a federal Granuflo metabolic alkalosis lawsuit against the makers and distributors of Granuflo. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. On September 4, 2014, the case... Read More

On September 9, 2014, a former Propecia user commenced a civil lawsuit against the maker of the drug Merck & Co., Inc. alleging that the company failed to warn consumers of the potentially-deadly side effects of the prescription hair loss medication. The action was filed... Read More

Bloomberg reported on a landmark transvaginal mesh verdict against Boston Scientific last week. After a few hours of deliberations, a Texas state jury awarded plaintiff Martha Salazar $23 million in compensatory damages and an additional $50 million in punitive damages for the defendant’s gross negligence... Read More

A West Virginia jury has granted a $3.27 million bladder sling lawsuit award to a plaintiff alleging permanent injuries from a vaginal mesh device manufactured by Ethicon. This is one of the first cases to go to trial against Ethicon, while more than 21,000 are... Read More

Researchers have known about the celiac disease-mimicking Benicar side effects for some time now but a new report highlights an extreme case. Earlier this year, the medical journal Gastrointestinal Medicine reported a case study of a 52-year-old woman suffering from sprue-like enteropathy – a severe gastrointestinal... Read More

After the serious risks of testosterone replacement products came to light about nine months ago, testosterone drug lawsuits have been piling up against the manufacturers. About 200 of those cases have been centralized into a multidistrict litigation (MDL), which is proceeding in the U.S. District... Read More