Mass Torts

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 […]

Just when you thought the Vioxx defective drug chapter had ended comes word that Merck & Co. is on the hook for another $23 million to settle claims by patients. The settlement was announced in papers filed in Louisiana federal court. Plaintiffs claim they suffered an economic loss when Merck […]

Lawyers preparing for trial in product liability cases, such as Searcy Denney, can never comment on settlement talks – but that has not stopped Bloomberg News from speculating that Johnson & Johnson may be close to offering more than $3 billion to settle its recalled him implant cases in the U.S. […]

We will never know just how much Wanda Queen was offered by C.R. Bard to settle her defective Bard Avaulta Solo transvaginal mesh lawsuit. All we do know is that on the morning that opening arguments were set to be heard, August 21, in the Charleston, West Virginia federal court, […]

Cook Medical is once again shipping the Zilver PTX Drug-Eluting Peripheral Stent to doctors and hospitals in Europe, Japan and in the U.S. following a global recall due to at least one fatality. The stent was voluntarily recalled after the company received 13 complaints of a faulty delivery system. Specifically, […]

The national litigation efforts in state and federal court involving Wright Medical’s defective metal-on-metal hip implant products ( Conserve®,Dynasty®, Profemur® and the Lineage®) have been proceeding well over the past few months with additional progress expected through the end of 2013.  The coordinated litigation efforts in both the federal Multi-District Litigation (MDL) […]

The entire trial took just 11 days. Donna Cisson sued C.R. Bard Co. of New Jersey, maker of the Avaulta Plus transvaginal mesh implanted in her in 2009 to treat pelvic organ prolapse. Last week, the jury awarded the 55-year-old Cisson $250,000 in compensatory damages and $1.75 million in punitive […]

With more than 27,000 transvaginal mesh cases consolidated in one federal court in West Virginia, the first bellwether case is now in its second week. Donna Cisson, 55 was implanted with a Bard Avaulta Plus Posterior BioSynthetic Support System in May 2009. She has undergone several removal operations after pain […]

What happens when low quality diabetes test strips enter the market? They give inaccurate readings which can prove fatal to a diabetic who must monitor the amount of sugar in his blood and deliver a dose of insulin according to the reading. Writing in Huffington Post, diabetes advocate Riva Greenberg […]

Ambien is an over-the-counter drug used to help people get to sleep and stay asleep. Chronic sleep disorders, also known as insomnia, are estimated to affect about 50 to 70 million Americans. But the active ingredient in many of these insomnia medications, zolpidem tartrate, is also landing many users in […]