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Johnson & Johnson knew about at least some of the serious problems related to their DePuy ASR hip implant, known as metal-on-metal (MOM) implants,  before they ever started alerting consumers and it appears they may have known about it even before they asked the FDA to approve the device through […]

If I sell you a product and make a profit from selling that product; do I owe a duty to you for the reasonable safety of that product? Most reasonable people would agree that a company should not be permitted to simply ignore the safety of products it profits from […]

Women who are trying to make decisions about a safe and effective form of birth control are having a hard time these days. On the heels of reports that Yaz, Bayer’s number one selling oral birth control pill was linked to abnormally high incidence of blood clotting disorders, it is […]

Bisphosphonates are widely prescribed medications for the treatment and/or prevention of osteoporosis.  The first bisphosphonate (Fosamax, also known as alendronate) for the prevention and/or treatment of osteoporosis was approved for the U.S. market in 1995.  Since that time, four bisphosphonate molecular entities (alendronate sodium, risedronate sodium, ibandronate sodium, and zoledronic […]

Searcy Denney has filed another individual lawsuit against Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. and Teva Pharmaceuticals in state court in New Jersey through local counsel. This latest case was filed on behalf of a St. Augustine woman who ingested bisphosphonate drugs for more than 10 years, including Fosamax as well […]

Teva, Watson, and Merck have been sued in yet another personal injury lawsuit filed by Searcy Denney’s Mass Tort Unit on behalf of a Fort Lauderdale woman. Thisunfortunate plaintiff took Fosamax and its generic equivalent for more than 10 years.   In January of 2011, she suffered a fracture of her […]

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 […]

A personal injury lawsuit was filed by Searcy Denney’s Mass Tort unit against Bard and Davol, one of the largest manufacturers of hernia mesh surgical products in the world. The case was filed on behalf of a Pompano Beach, Florida woman who suffered significant complications after the recalled hernia mesh […]

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 […]

The Mass Tort unit of Searcy Denney has filed a lawsuit in Palm Beach County Circuit Court today on behalf of a woman who developed gallbladder disease as a result of her ingestion of Yasmin, a “fourth generation” birth control pill manufactured and marketed by Bayer Corporation. This plaintiff was […]