Plaintiffs Letitia and George Edwards are suing Bayer Pharmaceuticals for more than $75,000 in a Mirena ectopic pregnancy lawsuit filed in the Southern District Court of New York on June 17, 2013. The Mirena IUD is an intrauterine contraceptive device that is inserted at the doctor’s office... Read More

Consumer watchdog group Public Citizen warns of the dangers associated with off-label use of prescription medications among the elderly, including atypical antipsychotics like Risperdal. Their recent newsletter cites disturbing research that shows at least 20 percent of prescriptions doled out in nursing homes over the... Read More

A Texas woman filed an INFUSE bone graft lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas on May 31, 2013. The plaintiff suffers from long-term and permanent injuries after her physician used the INFUSE bone graft in a manner that was... Read More

Twenty one women have filed a Mirena birth control lawsuit against Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals in California Superior Court. The products liability claim was brought on June 7, 2013 and alleges that the defendants manufactured a defective intrauterine device marketed as Mirena, which caused the plaintiffs... Read More

A plaintiff is seeking $10 million in damages in the latest Actos lawsuit, filed in Lafayette District Court in Louisiana on June 26, 2013. Anthony Vavalle, a 60-year-old New York resident, was prescribed Actos to treat Type II diabetes in December 2008. By July 2010, he... Read More

A Zimmer knee lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. It is the latest complaint concerning Zimmer's NexGen range of knee implants, taking the total number of product liability cases brought against the firm to more than... Read More

Earlier this fall, Johnson & Johnson negotiated a Risperdal settlement for an undisclosed sum with 21-year old Aaron Banks. Banks, who began taking the antipsychotic at age nine, developed gynecomastia, or male breast tissue, and held J&J liable for his condition and subsequent psychological trauma.... Read More

The controversial Medtronic INFUSE bone graft treatment may increase the risk of cancer, according to two independent studies published this month in The Annals of Internal Medicine. The research also found the product to have no benefit over traditional spine surgery. The studies contain data... Read More