Xarelto manufacturer Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (J&J), has long advertised the new-generation blood thinner as being much more convenient than warfarin, the leading anticoagulant for decades because it doesn’t require blood monitoring. Patients taking warfarin are req
On June 22, 2017, the FDA announced that Vascular Solutions, Inc., a medical device company that manufactures products used in vascular procedures, had issued a worldwide recall of Venture Catheters. The company issued the recall on April 25, 2017, which offers around 4,679 units distributed…
On May 11, 2017, a Tennessee woman filed a Bard Hernia Mesh lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. She claims that after she was implanted with the Monofilament Soft Bard Mesh, she suffered from serious injuries. She seeks in…
All Stryker hip replacement lawsuits filed in New Jersey state court have now been centralized into one court as part of a new multicounty litigation (MCL). According to a Notice to the Bar dated May 30, 2017, all cases involving the recalled Stryker LFIT V40…
On May 16, 2017, a Florida woman filed an Ethicon Physiomesh lawsuit in the Northern District of Florida. She claims that she suffered serious injuries after having Physiomesh implanted. The woman blames manufacturer Ethicon and parent company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) for her injuries and…
The first testosterone replacement therapy bellwether trial from the consolidated litigation in the Northern District of Illinois began on June 5, 2017. It ended in a mistrial only a few days later. According to a Notification of Docket Entry dated June 12, 2017, U.S. District…
If you have a dehumidifier in your home, you may want to check it over carefully. A number of these appliances have been blamed in recent years for household fires. In March 2017, for example, fire department officials in Green Bay, Wisconsin, blamed a dehumidifier…
Last year, the FDA warned doctors and patients that open-chest surgery performed with a Stockert 3T heater-cooler devices could increase a patient’s risk of developing a dangerous NTM infection. The devices had been linked with Mycobacterium chimaera (M. chimaera) and Mycobacterium Abscessus (M. abs
Grenfell Tower, a 24-story housing building in London, England, erupted in flames on June 14, 2017. Some residents escaped, but many others were trapped inside. Emergency crews arrived quickly and rescued 65 people, but another 79 died in the tragedy which has now been named…
In December 2015, all federally filed Bair Hugger warming blanket lawsuits were centralized before one court in the District of Minnesota. Since then, both parties have been working toward the selection of a few cases that will go to trial first, to determine how juries…
After years of trying to recover from its worldwide airbag scandal, Takata has finally surrendered. The company filed for bankruptcy on June 26, 2017, with estimated debts totaling more than $9 billion. The company has been drowning in costs and liabilities associated with its defective…
A Texas couple filed a lawsuit against Physiomesh manufacturer Ethicon and parent company Johnson & Johnson on May 11, 2017. They claim the Physiomesh Flexible Composit Mesh, which is used to repair hernias, caused serious injuries to the wife, who was implanted with the product.…