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Medical MalpracticeSince transvaginal mesh was first introduced into the market over 20 years ago, many hundreds of thousands of women have undergone operations where doctors have inserted vaginal mesh devices, threading them through incisions in the vagina to fortify pelvic muscles that failed to support internal organs or to treat incontinence, […]
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Since transvaginal mesh was first introduced into the market over 20 years ago, many hundreds of thousands of women have undergone operations where doctors have inserted vaginal mesh devices, threading them through incisions in the vagina to fortify pelvic muscles that failed to support internal organs or to treat incontinence, […]
Mass tort litigation has been pending against the manufacturers of NuvaRing for many years now and is hopefully drawing to a close in the coming months. The litigation is primarily based in federal court in St. Louis, Missouri, where MDL No. 1964 has been pending since 2008. The MDL is […]
The national litigation efforts in state and federal court involving Wright Medical’s defective metal-on-metal hip implant products ( Conserve®,Dynasty®, Profemur® and the Lineage®) have been proceeding well over the past few months with additional progress expected through the end of 2013. The coordinated litigation efforts in both the federal Multi-District Litigation (MDL) […]
On March 26, 2012, Searcy Denney filed two additional individual lawsuits against Bayer Corporation, the manufacturer of Yasmin and Yaz. One of the new cases was filed on behalf of a married Texas woman who works as a Head Start teacher. She started taking Yasmin in 2008, and quickly developed […]
Federal Rules were last updated in 2016 and the changes were thought to be significant. Welcomed by some and scorned by others, those changes are still being evaluated and applied by judges across the country. The Sedona Conference has drafted a primer for FRCP 34. Like revisions to the federal […]
Preparing clients for deposition is one of the most important tasks involved in my representation of victims of personal injury and medical malpractice. My clients are ordinary people who typically have no prior litigation experience. It’s therefore no surprise that the first thing I hear from most regarding their deposition […]
Industry Uses Old Strategies on New Products Electronic cigarettes have boomed into a $5-billion-a-year business expected to expand by nearly 25 percent in 2018. Not surprisingly, Big Tobacco is clamoring to corner the market. Reynolds American, of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company fame, opened a subsidiary called R.J. Reynolds Vapor, proudly […]
Someone asked what was one of the most challenging cases I have worked on as a drug and medical device litigator for the past 23 years. It was the Vioxx litigation. When the drug was first introduced to the market by Merck in 1999, I had concerns it could easily […]
I still remember typewriters. Heck, I still remember carbon paper, mimeographs and bag phones. Would a company, “back in the day”, have ever asked an employee, “hey, we need you to bring your own typewriter, desk, chair, or carbon paper” to work with you? Of course, not. In the recent […]
