On April 16, Kansas resident Jessica Caruthers filed a Mirena IUD lawsuit against Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, alleging severe injuries. The plaintiff claims that Bayer designed, manufactured and marketed a defective product and failed to warn about its latent dangers. Her Mirena lawyer filed the case in the U.S.... Read More

One of many Zimmer hip lawsuits pending in the U.S. has been removed from the state civil court where it was filed, and will instead be tried in federal court. The civil action was initially filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, on... Read More

“If you want to have a true, care-free birth control that is effective for up to five years, the Mirena IUD may be the best option,” writes Michael Bomberger for Hive Media on April 5th, 2013. However, this is not the rosy picture that plaintiffs intend to... Read More

A recent lawsuit slated for Zoloft multidistrict litigation has now been granted a stay by the presiding judge. The case, which was originally filed in district court in the Northern District of California, would typically be transferred to federal court in the Eastern District of... Read More

On April 8, 2013, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) ordered all federal Mirena lawsuits consolidated into the Southern District of New York for pre-trial proceedings. Plaintiffs, represented by their Mirena lawyer, petitioned the JPML for consolidation on January 16, 2013, arguing that... Read More

Yaz is a controversial birth control medication that became popular after it was introduced as a safe and effective oral contraceptive. Thousands of women, young women in particular, began to take the medication, which contains the synthetic hormone drospirenone as well as estrogen, hormones that... Read More

According to newly disclosed court documents, Johnson & Johnson conducted an internal evaluation of the ASR hip system, just one year after the DePuy hip recall, showing that nearly 40 percent of patients would experience total hip failure within five years. The company never published... Read More

A plaintiff has filed a lawsuit against Mirena IUD manufacturer Bayer, alleging insertion of the device led to perforation of the uterus and other serious complications. The plaintiff, Cynthia Solano, filed her complaint in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on March... Read More