On July 13, 2016, a Kentucky family filed a new lawsuit against the manufacturers of Onglyza, a type 2 diabetes drug. They claim that after the husband took the drug, he suffered from serious injuries. The filed the case in the Eastern District of Kentucky,…
On July 19, 2016, the Cook IVC MDL court selected three cases that will be the first to go to trial in the consolidated federal litigation. In October 2014, all Cook IVC filter lawsuits were consolidated into one court in the Southern District of Indiana.…
More than 600 Bard IVC filter lawsuits are pending in court, with all federally filed cases consolidated in the District of Arizona in August 2015. A new case, filed on May 5, 2016, has now joined the MDL in Arizona. The plaintiff in this case…
According to a recent article in the Pennsylvania Record, lawyers for the plaintiffs in consolidated mass tort Xarelto litigation in Philadelphia likened one of the early clinical trials conducted by manufacturers as a “total mess” and similar to a school science fair project. All federally…
At the beginning of the year, the FDA announced a recall of the Olympus TJF-Q180V duodenoscope. A series of superbug bacterial infections had been linked to the device, and the manufacturer promised updates and a new design to reduce the infection risk. Indeed, according to…
All federal testosterone replacement therapy lawsuits were consolidated in one court in June 2014. They are now proceeding in the Northern District of Illinois, before District Court Judge Matthew Kennelly. Both sides have been preparing a small group of cases for early trial. These are…
In November 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent a letter to the Mayor of Hoosick Falls, New York, warning that they had found the groundwater and drinking water to be contaminated with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a toxic chemical used to make Teflon and other…
Over the past few years, a number of hospitals and medical centers across the country have been plagued with outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant infections that they later found were linked to duodenoscopes—small, tube-like devices used to diagnose and treat health issues in the liver, bile ducts…
American magazine and consumer watchdog Consumer Reports has published two recent reports highlighting the potential health risks associated with proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) like Nexium, Prilosec, and other similar heartburn drugs. These drugs have been linked in studies with bone fractures, depen
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) like Prilosec and Nexium have already been linked to a number of health problems, including chronic kidney disease (CKD), bone fractures, and dependency. Now, according to a new study, they may also lead to complications in patients with heart disease. The…
In 2016, the U.S. Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee issued a report on closed-channel duodenoscope-related infections, which had been linked with antibiotic-resistant “superbug” infections that sickened at least 250 patients worldwide. Most of the infections were connected to the Olym
In October 2014, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) consolidated all federally filed Cook IVC filter lawsuits into one court in the Southern District of Indiana. District Judge Richard L. Young was appointed to oversee the proceedings. Since then, over 500 plaintiffs have…