A Maryland jury ruled that Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. is liable for the death of an ex.-U.S. Army translator, but a judge promptly threw the verdict out. The family of Diep An filed the Actos bladder cancer lawsuit following his death from the disease in 2012.... Read More

The newest Mirena perforated uterus lawsuit against the makers of the intrauterine contraceptive device was filed in federal court this week and will be heard by the judge presiding over the centralized products liability litigation of similar Mirena cases. The plaintiff, a Kentucky woman, received... Read More

A federal judge overseeing the multidistrict litigation against the Johnson & Johnson-owned subsidiary Ethicon over their vaginal mesh implants has ordered first trial to begin in August 2014. There are more than 10,000 Ethicon Prolift mesh lawsuits currently pending in the federal court system. Vaginal... Read More

On September 20, 2013, U.S. District Court Judge David A. Katz issued an order that delayed a bellwether trial in the DePuy ASR multidistrict litigation (MDL) No. 2197. The complaint is one of more than 8,200 DePuy ASR hip lawsuits centralized in the MDL, which is... Read More

Back in August, at least nine Effexor birth defect lawsuit filings were brought in courts across the country. Due to the similarities of the claims, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Legislation ordered that they be centralized before U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe in... Read More

Recent research conducted by a team at Stanford’s School of Medicine found that exposure to large quantities of Medtronic Infuse recombinant bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) was linked with an increased rate of cancer. The results of the study, which highlight the Medtronic Infuse cancer risk,... Read More

Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, makers of the Yasmin and Yaz birth control pills, have settled claims to the tune of $1.4 billion as of July, 2013. At least 6,760 plaintiffs have reached Yaz lawsuit settlements in the United States – despite Bayer continuing to deny any wrongdoing. Yaz,... Read More

Plaintiff Angela White, a 27 year-old Tampa, Florida resident, filed a Mirena IUD lawsuit against Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, in the Southern District of Illinois on September 17. The plaintiff claims the defendant distributed Mirena without properly disclosing the various side effects of the product, including... Read More