A Florida man has filed a new Zostavax lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. He blames Zostavax manufacturer Merck & Co. for injuries he allegedly sustained after receiving the Zostavax shingles vaccination. Plaintiff Claims Zostavax Caused Shingles According to…
According to a recent CNN report, manufacturer Bayer paid millions to doctors to entice them to use Essure, their permanent birth control device. The news channel analyzed federal data and found that between “August 2013 and December 2017, Bayer paid 11,850 doctors $2.5 million related…
The FDA received over 26,000 medical device reports related to Essure between November 2002 and December 2017. The reports indicated problems with the permanent birth control device, including migration, breakage, dislocation, and malpositioning. Manufacturer Bayer, despite recently stating they wou
A Minnesota woman recently filed a new Zimmer hip lawsuit against defendants Zimmer, Inc. and Zimmer Holdings, Inc. The plaintiff claims that after she was implanted with the Zimmer Kinectiv Hip System, she suffered from serious injuries requiring complicated revision surgery. The case was filed…
On June 19, 2018, plaintiffs filed a motion with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to consolidate all federally-filed lawsuits concerning the Zimmer M/L Taper with Kinectiv Technology and VerSys femoral head hip replacement products. Plaintiffs claim that the components are
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently warned that neurovascular stents used to help treat certain unruptured aneurysms could cause serious and sometimes deadly side effects. The administration has received reports of some patients who have received these stents and then suffered a stroke a
On July 13, 2018, the FDA announced a voluntary recall of medications containing “valsartan,” a high-blood-pressure drug that was found to be contaminated with an impurity classified as a possible carcinogen. Not all drugs were recalled—only those containing valsartan supplied by Zhejiang Huahai Pha
The FDA is advising women who are considering non-surgical vaginal rejuvenation procedures to think twice, as the procedures may result in serious injuries. According to a recent safety communication, the devices used in these procedures were never FDA-tested or approved for vaginal rejuvenation. Th
A California man has filed a new Gadolinium lawsuit in the Northern District of California. He claims that after he was injected with the dye, which is used to illuminate tissues during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests, he suffered from serious injuries. He seeks in…
Federal Zostavax lawsuits may soon be consolidated into one court for pre-trial proceedings. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) will hear arguments both for and against consolidating the lawsuits in July 2018, after which they will make a decision. Back in April 2018,…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services together with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) recently released a new toxicological profile on “perfluoroalkyls”—potentially toxic chemicals like PFOA and PFOS. Both of these have contaminated the groundwater in Hoosick Fa
In December 2017, a federal appeals court reinstated nearly 700 type 2 diabetes medication lawsuits that had previously been dismissed, allowing the cases to move forward because of new evidence that supported the plaintiffs’ claims. The plaintiffs claim that medications like Byetta, Januvia, and Vi
