Exclusively focused on representing plaintiffs, especially in mass tort litigation, Eric Chaffin prides himself on providing unsurpassed professional legal services in pursuit of the specific goals of his clients and their families.
On May 23, 2011, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation consolidated all federal DePuy Pinnacle hip implant lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas….
Patients in the United States are not the only ones experiencing serious side effects from the diabetes drug Actos. Canadian resident Jimmy Whyte filed a new class action lawsuit on behalf of…
Should the opinions of one hip implant manufacturer concerning the products of another hip implant manufacturer have any bearing on FDA approval of those products? Most would say they should not,…
On February 7, 2012, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) signed an order that transferred three pending vaginal mesh Multidistrict Litigations (MDL) into a fourth. The…
Thousands of lawsuits have been filed over the past several years concerning allegedly defective medical devices such as metal-on-metal hip implants and transvaginal mesh. Critics of these…
If you talk to a personal injury lawyer about car accidents, he will probably tell you that auto insurance companies do not work for their clients. Instead, auto insurance companies care most…
At first blush, the FDA’s recent approval of the first generic version of Actos to treat type 2 diabetes seems like great news for consumers. After all, the generic promises significant…
On August 8, 2011, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) centralized all federal Zimmer NexGen knee lawsuits into one court in the Northern District of Illinois. Since then,…
All federal DePuy Pinnacle hip lawsuits were consolidated into one court on May 23, 2011. At that time, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) centralized these cases into…
In 2003 Zimmer, Inc. introduced its NexGen CR-Flex knee implants. Zimmer marketed the device as an improvement over older devices. Instead of providing a femoral component that was cemented to…
In July 2012, nineteen plaintiffs filed Zoloft birth defect lawsuits in Wayne Circuit Court in West Virginia. Each lawsuit seeks to hold Pfizer, Zoloft’s manufacturer, liable for birth…
In the July 2012 issue of Orthopedics, researchers once again examined metal-on-metal (MoM) hip implants like the DePuy ASR, DePuy Pinnacle, Zimmer Durom Cup, and Biomet M2A Magnum. These…
