Defective Drugs

March has been a busy month for new filings in the national litigation efforts involving bisphosphonate drug-induced femur fractures.  Currently, there are coordinated state court proceedings pending in Atlantic City, New Jersey as well as Southern California involving the manufacturers of Fosamax, Boniva, and other osteoporosis drugs.  There are also […]

A recently unsealed complaint filed by whistleblower Helen Ge reveals that over four years, Takeda Pharmaceuticals failed to report to the FDA congestive heart failure cases in patients taking Actos. Takeda manufactures the Type II diabetes drug Actos. Actos is the third in a long line of failed Type II […]

Published today in the Journal of Neurosurgery is a shocking report detailing the death of an elderly gentleman who had begun taking Pradaxa (Dabigatran) just one month earlier. Three University of Utah doctors (Garber, Sivakumar and Schmidt) report that the man died from catastrophic, irreversible brain hemorrhage after suffering a […]

In yet another embarrassing moment for our United States regulatory authorities and medical establishment, doctors in New Zealand have written an open letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine highlighting the extreme danger posed by the drug Pradaxa. As we have written before, Pradaxa is Takeda Pharmaceutical’s solution […]

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 […]