Dangerous and potentially defective medical devices continue to injure thousands of unsuspecting Americans each year. Faulty or poorly designed knee and hip replacements as well as transvaginal mesh implants have been tied to debilitating health problems, and spurred a wave of products liability litigation across... Read More

Talcum powder in Johnson’s Baby Powder is gaining even more notoriety for its alleged links to ovarian cancer, as late last month yet another complaint, this one filed by Barbara Mihalich in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, sought class action... Read More

The first Mirena IUD lawsuits of some 2,000 facing the contraceptive manufacturer Bayer, will soon try out their legs in early trials in a New Jersey state court. This initial small batch of pending cases will allow attorneys for both sides to gauge juries’ responses to... Read More

Researchers from Taiwan recently released a study in the medical journal Cardiovascular Diabetology that warns patients of the potential for serious Benicar side effects. The researchers evaluated information from approximately half a million patients from January 2004 to December 2009. The patients all used angiotensin... Read More

Since the DePuy ASR recall in 2010, a slew of product liability lawsuits alleging severe and permanent injuries have inundated the court system. To date, more than 12,000 plaintiffs have sued DePuy Orthopaedics after suffering catastrophic failure with the ASR XL Acetabular Hip – a... Read More

A recent report highlights the link between Benicar and sprue-like enteropathy, emphasizing the importance of doctors being fully aware that the blood pressure medication may cause patients to experience chronic diarrhea and potentially suffer from permanent intestinal damage that is not Celiac disease. Celiac disease ─ otherwise... Read More

Federal health regulators in both the United States and Canada have released safety communications regarding power morcellation risks in laparoscopic hysterectomy procedures. On April 17, 2014, the FDA openly discouraged the use of laparoscopic power morcellation during hysterectomy or myomectomy for the treatment of uterine... Read More

Endo International PLC, the parent company of American Medical Systems, has agreed to settle thousands of AMS mesh lawsuits filed by women who allege serious injuries from the devices. The company plans to pay out around $830 million in settlement monies, which Endo claims will... Read More