The FDA has issued a new diabetes drug warning concerning a class of drugs called SGLT2 inhibitors that are designed to treat type 2 diabetes.  The warning states that the agency has received reports of ketoacidosis, a condition involving dangerously high levels of acid in... Read More

A birth injury settlement has been reached in the case of a young mother from Cromwell who filed a lawsuit against the University of Connecticut Health Center. The plaintiff had been looking ahead to the start of the trial on April 28, which would have... Read More

Over the past several years, the Da Vinci surgical system has been implicated in several civil lawsuits, primarily due to its alleged propensity to cause unwanted damage to surrounding tissue and organs during minimally-invasive abdominal and pelvic surgeries. Accordingly, plaintiffs from across the United States... Read More

A Chicago couple has filed a cerebral palsy lawsuit against a Puerto Rico hospital, a doctor and his wife, alleging medical negligence caused their infant daughter to be born with numerous birth injuries that ultimately lead to her untimely death. Cerebral palsy is a disorder that... Read More

A plaintiff who has added his Granuflo lawsuit to the growing multidistrict litigation currently underway in Massachusetts alleges that use of Granuflo or Naturalyte during his dialysis treatment led to a heart attack at a Fresenius clinic. The plaintiff links his injuries, which occurred in 2012,... Read More

The use of power morcellators has come under increasing public scrutiny recently, following recommendations against their use from the FDA and a public awareness campaign launched by Drs. Amy Reed and her husband, Hooman Noorchashm. Some patients have already filed lawsuits against the manufacturers, claiming... Read More

A jury has granted a Georgia couple $4.3 million in damages through a premature birth injury lawsuit filed over the death of their infant son. In total, they received $3.5 million for the loss of their baby, $200,000 for the child’s pain and suffering, $600,000... Read More

In April, 2015, federal judge Joseph R. Goodwin of the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia faced a legally complex analysis regarding the applicability of punitive damages in an ongoing transvaginal mesh product liability case against Boston Scientific Corporation. Procedurally,... Read More