Pradaxa is a blood thinning medication that has only been on the United States’ pharmaceuticals market for about two years, but already a number of plaintiffs claim to have been injured by serious side effects of the medication. Internal bleeding is one of the major... Read More

The early stages of the pending DePuy Pinnacle Hip MDL are proceeding smoothly. Following an April 25, 2012 meeting of U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade and each side's Pinnacle hip lawyer, the judge indicated that within six weeks, a case management outline for managing the... Read More

A DePuy hip plaintiff has requested that her lawsuit be moved from the Ohio multidistrict litigation case that is currently taking place surrounding hip replacement lawsuits back to the Eastern District of Ohio, where she lives. Plaintiff Deborah Wallace filed her DePuy lawsuit with the... Read More

A new plaintiff whose lawsuit was filed on the 30th of April, 2012, has become one of the latest litigants to see his lawsuit consolidated in the ongoing multidistrict litigation case currently taking place in the United States' District Court for the Northern District of... Read More

The first bellwether trial in the MDL of transvaginal mesh lawsuits involving the Bard Avaulta mesh implant has received a trial date. The trial is now set to begin on February 5, 2013 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.... Read More

A new lawsuit has been added to the ongoing multidistrict litigation case taking place in New York, which currently deals with hundreds of similar lawsuits that have been filed by men seeking settlements after experiencing sexual problems from Propecia. Paul Richmond filed his lawsuit on... Read More

A new lawsuit has been consolidated along with dozens of others in the ongoing multidistrict litigation case. Pearl Green decided to file an Actos lawsuit on the 9th of March, 2012, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. Subsequently, her... Read More

Once again, Chief Judge David R. Herndon, the judge overseeing the Yaz MDL in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District Illinois, has pushed back pretrial deadlines, thus postponing the start of bellwether trials, in an attempt to get the parties to reach a... Read More