The Zimmer Durom Cup device is the subject of an ongoing multidistrict litigation case taking place in New Jersey, and a new plaintiff has added his lawsuit to the case. Christopher Wilson originally filed his Zimmer hip litigation in the United States' District Court for... Read More

Patricia Latham’s transvaginal mesh lawsuit was transferred from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to multidistrict litigation (MDL) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia on September 10, 2012. According to Latham’s attorney, the plaintiff suffered from serious injuries due to... Read More

A lawsuit alleging complications related to a vaginal mesh device was originally filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York by a husband and wife pair of plaintiffs. The lawsuit was recently transferred to the ongoing multidistrict litigation case... Read More

Doyle Swafford filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the type II diabetes drug Actos on the 10th of September, 2012, in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. The plaintiff claims that there is a link between use of the medication and the development... Read More

A New York plaintiff has joined ongoing Yaz-related litigation in Illinois as of the 11th of September, 2012. Virginia R. Dodge joined the multidistrict litigation case currently ongoing in the United States' District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, naming drug maker Bayer Corporation,... Read More

On September 12, 2012, Judge David R. Herndon issued a stay of all pending motions in the Pradaxa MDL until further notice, in order to take time to establish the structure of the proceedings to come, and to enable interested Pradaxa lawyers to apply for... Read More

A new complaint against Zimmer knee filed by a Zimmer knee lawyer on behalf of a plaintiff who alleges ongoing problems since receiving her device. The case was added to the federal Zimmer knee multidistrict litigation (MDL) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern... Read More

A July 2012 study in Orthopedics reports that in hip implants such as the Zimmer Durom Cup, device failure usually occurs within the first two years after implantation. A March 2012 study in the Lancet indicated failure rates for metal-on-metal hip implants two-to-four times higher... Read More