In December, at the Joint meeting of the Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration, oral contraceptives containing drospirenone, approved since 2001, were discussed in detail. Drospirenone is a form of progestin, a synthetic hormone which is […]
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Two new lawsuits were filed this week against Bayer Corporation by Cal Warriner and Brenda Fulmer on behalf of clients from Oregon. The first lawsuit involves a 37 year old single woman employed in the accounting industry from Portland, Oregon. She ingested both Yaz and Gianvi for less than a year […]
Bloomberg is reporting today that Bayer has now settled approximately 500 of the more than 10,000 lawsuits pending against the German drug manufacturer. The reports indicate that the cases were confidentially settled for the sum of $110 million, or slightly more than an average of $200,000 per case. Settlement negotiations […]
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 […]
Searcy Denney has filed another lawsuit today in state court in Palm Beach County, Florida against the manufacturers of Yaz. This action was filed on behalf of a young woman in the media profession who suffered a pulmonary emboli and infarct after taking Bayer’s popular birth control drugs for a […]
In March, yet another lawsuit against Bayer, the manufacturer of Yaz, Yasmin, and Beyaz, was filed on behalf of local nursing student from Seminole County, Florida. This young woman ingested a number of different birth control products without incident, but developed gallbladder disease as a result of her use of […]
On January 24, 2011, the Mass Torts Unit of Searcy Denney filed yet another individual lawsuit in Palm Beach County, Florida on behalf of a client harmed by ingestion of Bayer’s beleaguered Yaz and Yasmin birth control pills. This latest civil claim was filed on behalf of a 39 year […]
Increase your possibility for blood clots – take Yaz birth control. That would be bare truth in advertising were Bayer AG willing to be honest about its block buster contraceptive medication that generated over $1.5.8 billion in sales last year. Another truth in advertising for the Yaz drug maker? We […]
Is it possible that four studies have demonstrated that certain birth control medications, like Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella, are dangerous and the manufacturer, Bayer, knew nothing about the dangers? It is reasonable to conclude that if the manufacturer did not actually know, through reasonable and prudent drug evaluation; those dangerous […]
According to new studies, the latest generation of birth control pills, including Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella, put women at a higher risk of blood clots than other types of birth control pills. These fourth-generation birth control pills carry a two-to-three times greater risk of venous thrombosis, also known as blood […]
