Massachusetts resident Carolyn Ferrara is suing Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals over personal injuries and economic damages she alleges are a direct a result of the Mirena IUD. The product liability complaint was brought in the US District Court for the Western District of Massachusetts and lists... Read More

Zofran is a powerful anti-nausea medication manufactured and sold by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). The prescription drug, also known as ondansetron, is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat patients going through radiation and/or chemotherapy, as well as post-operative patients who’ve had general anesthesia.... Read More

A West Palm Beach, Florida family has filed a cerebral palsy lawsuit against the obstetrician who delivered their son. The now 16-year-old boy was born with cerebral palsy and currently has the intellectual abilities of a 2-year-old. His parents are suing the doctor for millions,... Read More

As questions are raised over the connection, if any, between use of anti-nausea drug Zofran (ondansetron) by pregnant women and an increased risk of birth defects, new research indicates that the medication does in fact cross the placenta to reach the developing fetus and likely remains with... Read More

A birth injury lawsuit has been filed in South Carolina on behalf of a minor child who suffered a brachial plexus injury during childbirth. The complaint asserts that the child’s condition, characterized as “severe and permanently debilitating injury, deformity, pain, and suffering, which requires costly... Read More

Following the untimely loss of their newborn child, a couple recently filed a birth injury lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado – alleging, among other things, the wrongful death of their twin son after a forceps-assisted delivery resulted in... Read More

An additional 1,400 claims will be added to a DePuy hip settlement agreement reached in late 2013. As the number of the company’s ASR hip replacements continue to fail and require patients to undergo premature revision surgery, the manufacturer has agreed to include ASR implants... Read More

Two new studies have examined the risk of morcellator hysterectomy complications as the controversy over the medical devices continues. Both studies, which were published in February, looked specifically at whether the morcellators could worsen some types of uterine cancer. The results come on the heels... Read More