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Valsartan Recall Urges Some Drug Makers To Increase Prices

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When two generic companies manufacturing valsartan recalled hundreds of lots of the blood-pressure medicine last July, Alembic Pharmaceuticals was unaffected by…

AG Negotiate A $700M Deal With Reckitt Over Suboxone

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British pharmaceutical company Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC along with the attorneys general for New York, California, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington, negotiated a $700 million deal over Suboxone, a drug that helps reduce…

Lawsuit Alleges GBCAs Cause Disabling Injuries

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In a complaint filed by a plaintiff in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, she suffered an allergic reaction in July 2018, after being injected with various…

J&J And DePuy To Settle Pinnacle Hip Implant Lawsuits

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Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics unit are about to resolve a large number of lawsuits targeted at their metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implants.

Plaintiff lawyer Mark Lanier told that the consumers and the…

GSK Fails To Escape Zofran Birth Defect Lawsuits

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U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor denied GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s request to dismiss hundreds of birth defect lawsuits filed by women, who used Zofran as an anti-…

$260M Tentative Deal To End Opioid Crisis

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On Monday, two Ohio counties and four drug companies reached a tentative settlement of roughly $260 million at the eleventh hour to avoid an opioid trial.

The deal…

Valsartan Lawsuit Filed Over Colorectal Cancer Risk

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In a lawsuit filed on January 30, 2019, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, a plaintiff claimed that taking generic valsartan

Plaintiffs Seek Prolene Mesh Consolidation In New Jersey

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The plaintiffs involved in lawsuits filed against Johnson & Johnson over problems with the Ethicon Prolene Hernia System (PHS) have filed a request in New Jersey…

Delaware AG Allowed To Proceed With Opioid Lawsuit

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In an opinion issued on February 4, 2019, Superior Judge Mary M. Johnston gave a green signal to Delaware Attorney General to pursue claims against drug manufacturers who downplayed the addictive nature of…

A Significant Rise In Roundup Lawsuit Expected: Bayer

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The German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company Bayer is expecting that there will be a surge in Roundup lawsuits.

Bayer indicated that the size of…