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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 […]

Stress imaging tests cost approximately $1,000 each, and are used to measure blood flow to the heart and help determine how well the heart is working at rest and during exercise.  The American College of Cardiology recommends that patients have the test administered two years after having a stent inserted, […]

Over the past year, lawyers who represent thousands of women injured by defective transvaginal mesh have faced difficult choices with regard to the proper venue for filing individual lawsuits. These medical devices have been widely used (and perhaps overused) to treat women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) or pelvic organ […]

Attorney Brenda Fulmer of the Mass Tort Unit at Searcy Denney filed a products liability lawsuit today against the manufacturers of NuvaRing. NuvaRing is a novel medical device that is used for contraceptive.  It has become a popular product used by young girls and women due to the convenience of […]

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 […]

A case alleging failure to warn, strict liability, breach of warranty, and negligence was filed today by Cal Warriner and Brenda Fulmer of Searcy Denney in the state court proceedings before Judge Higbee in New Jersey against Merck, Watson Laboratories, and Teva Pharmaceuticals. The lawsuit alleges that a 64 year […]

Two lawsuits have been filed by the Mass Tort Unit at Searcy Denney on behalf of patients who were injected with contamination Heparin products. In early 2008, a number of pre-filled Heparin and saline syringes were recalled, after it was learned that the manufacturer (AM2PAT, doing business as Sierra Pre-Filled, […]

One of the first cases involving a plaintiff who developed bladder cancer as a result of taking the diabetes drug, Actos was filed by Mass Tort Attorneys of Searcy Denney in the Southern District of Florida, Miami Division. This case involves a married executive who lives in the Miami area […]

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 […]