The Food and Drug Administration issued a recent safety communication on January 17, 2013, regarding metal-on-metal hip replacement systems. With this announcement, the agency is updating their evaluation of potential complications associating with these devices, and notes that all-metal implants could be risky because of... Read More

A new lawsuit was filed by a Yaz plaintiff in Illinois federal court on the 17th of January, 2013 by a Florida woman who is seeking compensation for injuries she claims to have suffered after taking Yaz/Yasmin birth control. The woman filed her lawsuit against... Read More

The first DePuy ASR hip lawsuit went to trial on January 7, 2013 in Maryland state court, but was dismissed the next day. In addition to naming as defendants DePuy Orthopaedics and affiliates, the lawsuit had also brought counts against in-state defendant Chesapeake Surgical Ltd.... Read More

Switzerland's biggest health insurance company, CSS, is supporting a young woman who is pursuing legal action against German drug maker Bayer after experiencing side effects of the popular fourth-generation birth control pill sold as Yaz or Yasmin. The woman, according to reports in the Swiss... Read More

A Florida woman has joined vaginal mesh litigation with a vaginal mesh lawsuit that the filed on November 8, 2012, in the Circuit Court for the Seventh Judicial Circuit in Volusia County. The defendants in the lawsuit moved the case to federal court as of... Read More

A new plaintiff has joined Actos litigation and is claiming that drug maker Takeda failed to warn patients about some of the serious risks associated with the use of their medication. Robert Salinas filed his Actos lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois,... Read More

Many patients who have experienced some of the serious side effects related to controversial vaginal mesh devices have filed lawsuits against the manufacturers of these devices in the hopes of winning compensation for their injuries. Vaginal mesh devices are approved by the Food and Drug... Read More

A new Zoloft birth defects lawsuit has been added to the multidistrict litigation case that is currently taking place in Pennsylvania. The MDL is growing continually as more and more plaintiffs join litigation against drug maker Pfizer, claiming that the manufacturer knew or should have... Read More