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Federal Judge Clears Way For Talc Lawsuits

Categories: General

On Monday, the U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson issued an opinion, rejecting the efforts made by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to exclude plaintiffs’ expert witness testimony, allowing more than 17,000…

PPI MDL Lawyers Called To Meet The Presiding Judge

Categories: General

‘Plaintiff Fact Sheets’ release is expected soon for the proton pump inhibitor (PPI) lawsuits which include nearly 552 federally-filed Nexium, Prilosec, and Prevacid…

Long Term Users Of Elmiron Unaware Of Eye Damage Risks

Categories: FDA Related

The growing number of Elmiron lawsuits indicate that several long term users are now learning that the interstitial cystitis drug may be the cause of vision loss and other…

TVM Settlement Amount Crosses A Billion For Endo

Categories: General

Two big transvaginal settlements amounts, announced by Endo International Plc., for the U.S. TVM cases takes the total settlement amount to over a billion. The first settlement news came in…

First Win for Abbvie in TRT lawsuit

Categories: General

Claims against AndroGel manufacturer AbbVie were rejected by the jury in Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois; thereby, ruling in favor of the defendant. Allegations faced by AbbVie included failure to warn the plaintiff, James Couch, and his…

534 More Cases Added to the Pa. Risperdal Mass Tort Lawsuits

Categories: General

The court website has shown an increase in Risperdal lawsuits with the addition of 534 cases to the Pennsylvania Risperdal Mass tort. With this, 6082 is the total count of Risperdal cases as…

The Fourth Xarelto Trial moved to Early 2018

Categories: General

Just when hopes were running high on the fourth Xarelto trial scheduled to begin this October in the US District Court ND Texas, we are informed that it has been postponed until early 2018. The verdicts for the three previous lawsuits went in…

$57 M For A Pennsylvania Woman Over A Transvaginal Injury

Categories: General

A Pennsylvania woman was awarded close to $57 million that included $50 million as punitive damages for injuries she suffered from the vaginal mesh devices; the lawsuit was filed against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon Inc., it is also…

Judge Fallon Denies New Bellwether Trials

Categories: General

Judge Fallon presiding over Xarelto MDL 2592 also denied a motion for new bellwether trials for the plaintiffs who had lost to the defendants in the first two bellwethers trials. The judge stood by his decisions stating that they were made on the…

Plavix Verdict Affects Pelvic Mesh Cases

Categories: General

A move made this September wherein the plaintiffs involved in the pelvic mesh related injury against Boston Scientific agreed for their cases to be heard in a courtroom other than the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. This decision has its…