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JPML Denies To Vacate Conditional Transfer of Taxotere Cases
The request to vacate the conditional transfer of one Taxotere lawsuit was denied by the JPML panel on the grounds that the transfer would further expedite the litigation process as a whole. The case was…
Bard IVC Filter Plaintiff Produces Sufficient Evidence
The U.S. District Court, District of Arizona was approached by C. R. Bard, the defendant named in the IVC Filter litigation involving the Eclipse filter, to pass a…
Pa. Supreme Court Decision May Impact Hundreds of Plaintiffs
A decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court regarding whether it will hear the appeal involving two Risperdal lawsuits is awaited which can further impact hundreds of…
Negligence in Prolift Design Cost J&J & Ethicon $35 Million
A nine-person jury panel held J&J and its Ethicon Inc. subsidiary responsible for being negligent in designing and marketing of Prolift, a transvaginal mesh…
1st AndroGel Trial: Plaintiffs Allowed to Present All Claims
Retrial for a previously tossed $150 million AndroGel verdict announced as punitive damages and no compensatory damages in favor of the…
PTC Symptoms Lead to Filing of Mirena IUD Lawsuit
An increasing number of product liability lawsuits are filed against Bayer Healthcare, the maker of intrauterine birth control device Mirena. The lawsuits are filed by…
Leg Amputation Triggers Filing of Invokana Lawsuits
An Invokana lawsuit was filed by a man from Mississippi alleging that the side effects of this antidiabetic drug resulted in the surgery to have his leg…
Jury Awards $15 Million to a Pelvic Mesh Injury Victim
A Bergen County Jury of New Jersey unanimously awarded nearly $15 million to a woman who alleged she suffered from debilitating pain caused by one of the two pelvic mesh devices that she received in 2008 sold under J&J’s Ethicon brand name…
Stryker LFIT V40 Femoral Head Trials
The Stryker LFit v40 lawsuits centralized along with other hip replacement lawsuits before U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in the U.S. District Court for the…