It is a common treatment for uterine fibroids but now Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is halting the sale and promotion of its popular surgical device, known as a morcellator, because of fears it could spread a deadly cancer. Fibroids grow in the uterus of some women. While they are often […]
Author: Searcy Law
For the first time, a Texas jury has decided the pelvic mesh made by healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson was defectively designed. The jury awarded the 64-year-old Dallas woman $1.2 million following a two-and-a half week trial. The case has implications for all pelvic mesh which is overwhelmingly made of […]
The U.S. Attorney General’s office says it is reviewing an open letter submitted by a consumer group encouraging a criminal probe into the destruction by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) of pelvic mesh litigation documents. That announcement comes after Corporate Action Network (CAN) asked Eric Holder Jr. to explore how and […]
When the mercury-based preservative thimerosol was slowly removed from childhood vaccines it was assumed that the astonishing rates of autism would decline. Autism is a brain abnormalty that makes children socially awkward if not totally withdrawn. For years it was suspected that mercury toxicity was behind cases of autism, estimated […]
In 2011 Endo Health Solutions bought American Medical Systems for $2.9 billion. That may have been a mistake because since then, the number of product liability lawsuits naming AMS over its transvaginal mesh has grown to 22,000 cases. Now the company is looking ahead to the impact on its bottom […]
In 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court in Wyeth v. Levine held that brand-name drug manufacturers are responsible for their warning labels and may be liable for not adding additional warnings when new risks are discovered. However, in 2011, the Supreme Court held that failure-to-warn claims brought against generic drug makers […]
The boy was just 10-years-old and he wanted a male rat to join his female pet rat. Petco was the nearest pet store and grandma bought the rat companion. But when Aiden Pankey got the rat home, it bit him. Aidan died June 12, 2013 from a bacterial infection, allegedly from the […]
The evidence seemed overwhelming. The transvaginal tape (TVT made by Ethicon, a division of Johnson & Johnson) had caused a foreign body reaction inside Carolyn Lewis of Texas, the woman suing the healthcare giant. Her trial began February 10 and was the first federal case to be heard against Johnson […]
Stemvida International Corporation of Ontario, California, manufacturer of StemAlive, has issued a voluntary recall of its StemAlive 90 Capsules. While dietary supplements are regulated under the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, responsibility for labeling, including ingredients and safe usage, is left to the manufacturer. The FDA reports that […]
It’s hard to remember exactly how many times Carolyn Jones has had her transvaginal mesh trial put off before a jury in the federal courthouse in Charleston, WV. Now it has been postponed again. Jones will not have her defective product trial heard until May 19, 2014 according to an […]
