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 […]
Merck & Co has reportedly agreed to pay $100 million to settle thousands of product liability cases filed by women injured by the NuvaRing contraceptive medical device. The agreement will provide an average benefit of $58,000 to those who suffered deep vein thrombosis (blood clots), pulmonary embolism from a blood […]
The NuvaRing New Jersey court has just announced today that a settlement agreement has been reached between Plaintiffs’ counsel and Merck for a sum of $100 million. NuvaRing is a popular contraceptive among women that increases the risk for fatal blood clots. The device is produced by Merck and its […]
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 […]
