According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), most deaths in large truck accidents are passenger vehicle occupants. In 2014, a total of 3,660 people died in large truck crashes—68 percent of these were occupants of other vehicles, and 15 percent were pedestrians, bicyclists,…
After May 19, 2016, plaintiffs will no longer be able to file joint complaints in the Xarelto MDL currently proceeding in the Eastern District of Louisiana. After that, only individual complaints will be allowed. All federal Xarelto lawsuits were consolidated there in December 2014, and…
Automakers are having a hard time keeping up with air bag recall replacements. Millions of vehicles have been recalled to replace potentially defective Takata air bag inflators that may explode upon deployment, causing serious and sometimes life-threatening injuries. But Takata has been unable to ke
Though inferior vena cava (IVC) filters were designed to capture and dissipate blood clots before they can reach the lungs or the heart, they have been linked with a number of complications over the past few years. They look like little spiders, and their “legs”…
In March 2015, a woman filed an Olympus duodenoscope lawsuit in King County Superior Court, in Seattle, Washington, on behalf of her husband who suffered a life-threatening bacterial infection after going through a procedure in which doctors used the medical device. A few months later,…
The number of lawsuits filed against diabetes drug Invokana manufacturer Janssen Pharmaceuticals (and parent company Johnson & Johnson) continues to increase. On March 31, 2016, a new case was filed in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware. The plaintiff, a Tennessee resident, claims…
On November 25, 2015, Judith A. Enck, Regional Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), sent a letter to Mayor Borge of Hoosick Falls, New York, reiterating that PFOA water contamination had been discovered in the village of Hoosick Falls. She recommended that bottled water…
On April 5, 2016, the people of Petersburgh, New York, had a town meeting to discuss the water contamination crisis in their community. It started in nearby Hoosick Falls, when samples collected from the public water supply in June 2015, were found to contain more…
On March 17, 2016, a Louisiana man filed an Invokana lawsuit against manufacturers Janssen Pharmaceuticals, parent company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. He seeks in excess of $75,000 in damages. The case is proceeding in the U.S. District Court for the…
It was back in January 2016 that we learned Takata was hoping to receive financial aid from automakers as it struggled to get through its air bag debacle. According to Bloomberg, Takata detailed its business outlook at a meeting in January, and hoped to gauge…
In December 2014, all federally filed Xarelto lawsuits were consolidated into the Eastern District of Louisiana for pre-trial proceedings. Since then, the court has seen a steady increase in the number of cases there. Another new lawsuit joined the MDL on March 16, 2016. The…
In February 2014, the FDA issued a drug safety communication stating that they were investigating a possible association between type 2 diabetes drug Onglyza (saxagliptin) and heart failure. After further analysis, they confirmed that the drug did increase risk of hospitalization for heart risk fail