After taking a cheap room at 1am in Jamaica Queens, the goal was to be on the first plane out before the big snow hit JFK. Unfortunately, the big snow had other ideas. At 6:30am, the Jet Blue flight crew quickly ushered everyone onto flight... Read More

The litigation process for product liability multidistrict litigation (MDL) No. 2385 is moving steadily forward. U.S. District Judge Robert R. Herndon issued a Case Management Order on January 23, 2014, which identified the first four Pradaxa bleeding injury lawsuits to be heard in court. The... Read More

Plaintiffs who have filed Ethicon vaginal mesh lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson have now slapped the company with a motion for sanctions involving thousands of missing key documents. Plaintiffs involved in the motion allege Ethicon destroyed or lost those documents that were to be a... Read More

Angie Derry and Rachel Long are among the ranks of young women who’ve experienced debilitating complications with the Essure birth control device – a tiny spring coil placed inside the fallopian tubes. Both women were sold on the purported benefits of this miracle contraception –... Read More

In January 2014, a divided Louisiana Supreme Court reversed a decision awarding the state Attorney General $257 million in a Risperdal lawsuit against Janssen Pharmaceuticals and its parent corporation Johnson & Johnson, Inc. In a 4-3 decision, the Court ruled that the drug manufacturers had... Read More

Biomet has indicated it will settle lawsuits pending in multidistrict litigation regarding its embattled M2a Magnum hip replacements. The complaints, totaling more than 800, allege that the implants are defectively designed, causing premature device failure, metal contamination and other severe complications. Reuters reports that the... Read More

Plaintiffs now have a simpler and more efficient way to file a federal Stryker Rejuvenate hip lawsuit. A judge recently approved a master complaint, which outlines all of the common allegations made by plaintiffs in Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II hip product liability cases. The... Read More

Just one week before opening statements in the bellwether trial for the federal MDL (multidistrict litigation) involving nearly 3000 Actos bladder cancer lawsuits, Takeda Pharmaceuticals suffered a blow regarding evidence discovery. On January 27, 2014, the federal MDL judge ruled that Takeda breached its duty... Read More