The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to remind the public what a good job it’s been doing in monitoring drugs both before and after they are marketed. In a report issued over the weekend, April 21, “Advances in FDA’s Safety Program for Marketed Drugs,” the agency pats itself […]
Category: Defective Drugs
The Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation issued an order on April 17, 2012, establishing MDL No. 2342 styled In Re: Zoloft (setraline hydrochloride) Products Liability Litigation. This order will establish coordinated multi-district proceedings in the federal court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for lawsuits that have been filed on […]
Bloomberg is reporting today that Bayer has now settled approximately 500 of the more than 10,000 lawsuits pending against the German drug manufacturer. The reports indicate that the cases were confidentially settled for the sum of $110 million, or slightly more than an average of $200,000 per case. Settlement negotiations […]
The “antipsychotic” class of drugs is distributed liberally in nursing homes. Antipsychotics including Risperdal, Seroquel, Zyprexa, and Abilify, are frequently given to the elderly who are suffering from dementia so they are easier to control. It’s a handy tool in a nursing home that is understaffed and needs to find […]
A newly published study finds that first-time users of a class of drugs to treat osteoporosis may be at an increased risk of serious inflammatory eye disease. Bisphosphonates such as Fosamax and Actonel, which are taken orally, are two of the most commonly prescribed drugs in that class. Published in […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has revised its recommendations for the popular antidepressant, Celexa (citalopram hydrobromide). Last August, the FDA warned Celexa should be limited to doses no greater than 40 mg per day because of a risk of abnormal electrical activity in the heart known as Torsade […]
It’s little known and rarely applied but the Park doctrine does allow the U.S. government to file a misdemeanor criminal charge against corporate officials even if they didn’t intend to violate any law. The law is based on the conviction of a Mr. John Park, who owned Acme Markets, a […]
On March 26, 2012, Searcy Denney filed two additional individual lawsuits against Bayer Corporation, the manufacturer of Yasmin and Yaz. One of the new cases was filed on behalf of a married Texas woman who works as a Head Start teacher. She started taking Yasmin in 2008, and quickly developed […]
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 […]
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 […]
