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 […]
Author: Searcy Law
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 […]
This statement comes from the American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS) about the use of a midurethral sling to treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI). SUI is a condition that up to one-third of women will experience sometime in their life. It is a condition where the woman will experience a leakage of […]
According to a 30-page document filed in federal court in West Virginia on December 2, officials at Johnson & Johnson (J&J) have either lost or intentionally destroyed thousands of pages of documents that are essential to the upcoming transvaginal mesh product liability trials. J&J is facing nearly 13,000 cases that […]
The numbers of transvaginal mesh lawsuits keeps growing in the Charleston, West Virginia federal court where they are consolidated. At this writing there are 41,060 claims filed with thousands of suits naming six manufacturers being added every month. For the most part, women say they saw legal advertisements on television […]
The final bellwether product liability trial against C.R. Bard has been rescheduled yet again. After a November and December date, the trial of Carolyn Jones has now been scheduled for January 10 in the federal courthouse where 40,000 transvaginal mesh lawsuits are consolidated in front of Judge Joseph R. Goodwin. […]
They are called 5-hour Energy and Red Bull, energy drinks are part of the growing multi-billion dollar industry that targets youngsters and teens and adults as a way to get through the day. Meanwhile, the industry that makes these caffeine heavy products goes largely unregulated as some reports of fatalities […]
