A Georgia woman and her husband have filed a da Vinci surgical system lawsuit, after she sustained life-threatening injuries following a hysterectomy. She was forced to undergo invasive emergency surgery to correct these complications. The plaintiffs allege the injuries were caused by the da Vinci... Read More

Defendants scored a victory in the first federal Ethicon vaginal mesh trial. The judge overseeing the trial, Judge Joseph R. Goodwin, entered a judgment of a matter of law after hearing the plaintiff’s case and reviewing a summary judgment motion submitted by the defendants. This... Read More

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has ruled that all federal Lipitor diabetes lawsuits should be transferred to U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina for coordinated pretrial proceedings. The order was handed down on February 18, after it was determined that... Read More

In the most recent study linking testosterone therapy to heart problems, researchers found a correlation between taking testosterone drugs and increased rates of heart attack both in men older than 65 and men younger than 65 with a known risk of heart problems.  The study,... Read More

A plaintiff who filed a DePuy hip injury lawsuit in California has had his case expedited due to unforeseeable and tragic circumstances. Gary Darling filed a complaint against DePuy after experiencing severe complications with his ASR hip implant in 2010. Since that time, Darling has... Read More

A West Virginia federal judge has denied summary judgment to Boston Scientific in a pelvic mesh device lawsuit, finding an issue of fact regarding whether the plaintiff could have realized a connection between her injuries and the product within the two-year statute of limitations. On... Read More

Doctors in the United Kingdom have recently been ordered to explicitly advise patients of the blood clot risks involved in taking popular oral contraceptives Yaz and Yasmin. Both brand name birth control pills are manufactured by German pharmaceutical company Bayer. Specifically, general practitioners throughout Britain... Read More

Another Stryker Rejuvenate settlement has been reached in front of the bellwether trials slated to begin later this year. While the details of the agreement were not made public, it is the fifth settlement reached of the original ten hip replacement cases ordered to go through... Read More