On August 21, 2013, plaintiffs filed a Medtronic Infuse lawsuit in the Pike Circuit Court of Kentucky. However, on September 25, 2013, the case was removed to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. This personal injury/product liability lawsuit was filed on... Read More

A young man who was only seven years old when he was prescribed the powerful antipsychotic Risperdal is suing Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries, claiming that he suffered a number of serious and permanent side effects of the drug, including the growth of male... Read More

In August 2013, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) decided to consolidate all products liability claims brought in federal courts nationwide involving incretin mimetics – a controversial class of diabetes drugs that have been linked to pancreatitis and cancer of the pancreas. The... Read More

A DePuy ASR hip replacement lawsuit has reportedly been settled, avoiding trial in a case that was set to begin later this month in California state court.  Johnson & Johnson, the parent of DePuy Orthopaedics, the maker of the DePuy ASR hip replacement system, is facing... Read More

A recent study in the British Medical Journal reported that when pregnant women take antidepressants close to their delivery date, they are at an increased risk for postpartum hemorrhaging. This study is one of many that reports that antidepressants can have very harmful effects on... Read More

The Orange County Register reports at least 71 deaths associated with da Vinci robot surgery since 2000, according to a recent study. The number of “injury” or “death” events in FDA records reached 105 in August 2013, more than triple the rate of any prior month, according to... Read More

Nearly 20% of all hip replacements and 10% of knee replacements done each year are secondary revision surgeries to replace defective devices, according to Consumer Reports. Knee and hip replacement complications such as infection, bone loss, device loosening, dislocation and longer hospital stays are more common... 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