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 […]
Category: Defective Drugs
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 […]
In March, yet another lawsuit against Bayer, the manufacturer of Yaz, Yasmin, and Beyaz, was filed on behalf of local nursing student from Seminole County, Florida. This young woman ingested a number of different birth control products without incident, but developed gallbladder disease as a result of her use of […]
The Mass Tort unit has filed an additional lawsuit in South Florida against Bayer Corporation, the manufacturer of Yaz and Yasmin birth control pills. This individual lawsuit was filed on behalf of a police officer who suffered a heart attack in April of 2009. The forty-three year old plaintiff and […]
