The United States Justice Department has fined British drug company GlaxoSmithKline $3 billion for failing to accurately report safety data related to two of its most popular drugs, Wellbutrin and Paxil. The fine is divided – $2 billion to resolve the largest fraud settlement in U.S. history and $1 billion […]
Category: Mass Torts
For the past few years orthopedic device manufacturers have come under intense scrutiny for selling hip implant devices that fail prematurely. These failures have been due to designing systems that include too many metal parts. It has been determined that when metal touches metal in an implant designed to carry […]
Kids continue to be targets of tobacco manufacturers. They have been from the very beginning and as tobacco company sales fall, the tobacco industry has demonstrated a willingness to pull out all the stops to maintain their beginner smoking programs. In 2009, as part of President Obama’s comprehensive Family Smoking […]
Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley has developed and launched a new website designed to provide consumers and clients with valuable information about a potentially dangerous drug — Pradaxa. Searcy Denney believes that consumers deserve to be well informed about drugs, medical devices and products in order to prevent […]
Our law firm has tried eight trials in a row to successful plaintiffs’ verdicts; involving what has become known as the “Engle Progeny Cases”. These cases arise from the “Engle” case tried two decades ago in which juries heard 12 months of evidence and made a series of findings about […]
You wouldn’t let your toddler play in a busy street. That’s just good common sense that you already know. However, if you’re in a more precarious position—perhaps you’re pregnant and depressed—you need expert guidance you can trust to keep you healthy and your baby out of danger. You should be […]
Let’s say you want to form a committee to evaluate the safety of a drug; say for example the drugs Yaz, Ocella and Yasmin. You begin by looking for people who are “experts” about the drug, the ingredients in the drug and the use of the drug. You find 26 […]
Big Tobacco has recently agreed to pay over $6 million to settle claims with the US Department of Justice. A summary of the conduct causing the $6 million payment? US district Court Judge Gladys Kessler, after hearing mountains of evidence, says this about the tobacco corporations: They lied. They misrepresented […]
Corporate America needs protection from trial lawyers!? So goes the tort reform mantra. Trial lawyers are victimizing corporations; which is causing job loss; which is ruining the economy; which is leading to higher prices; which is causing Wall Street uncertainty; which is leading to all around chaos. I have worked […]
Increase your possibility for blood clots – take Yaz birth control. That would be bare truth in advertising were Bayer AG willing to be honest about its block buster contraceptive medication that generated over $1.5.8 billion in sales last year. Another truth in advertising for the Yaz drug maker? We […]
