How much can one bad drug cost a company? Just ask Merck. When its painkiller drug Vioxx was pulled from the market in 2004, Merck was facing 27,000 lawsuits which culminated in a $4.85.8 billion settlement. Then last year the U.S Department of Justice reached a $950 million civil and […]
Category: Mass Tort News
It took the death of five infants but major U.S. stores have finally recalled a popular baby recliner more than two years after infant deaths and injuries were first reported. Buy Buy Baby and Toys R Us are taking 150,000 Nap Nanny recliners off store shelves, reports CNN. The federal […]
January first marks a new chapter for medical device manufacturers, who will be required to pay an excise tax of 2.3 percent on total revenues. Medical devices range from small stents and CT scans to pacemakers, defibrillators, metal hips and synthetic surgical mesh. The $125-billion-a-year industry complains it will be […]
A British Columbia court has agreed to allow a class-action lawsuit to proceed and to be headed by the case of an infant born with a hole in her heart after her mother took the antidepressant Paxil (paroxetine). The mother, Faith Gibson, is suing GlaxoSmithKline Inc. (GSK), the maker of […]
This news is putting a scare into the pharmaceutical cosmetics industry. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has written a warning letter to more than 350 medical practices about a bogus Botox that may have come from a foreign source distributed through Canada. The product may be contaminated, counterfeit, […]
In a court decision that could open the floodgates for drug promotion, an appellate court has thrown out the conviction of a drug salesman who promoted a drug for off-label use citing his free speech rights. Alfred Caronia worked for Orphan Medical where he sold the narcolepsy drug Xyren. He […]
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is fighting a patient lawsuit and seeking to have it dismissed on the grounds that the company did warn patients of the potential for metal erosion and the need for revision surgery. This California case was filed by plaintiff Loren Kransky in December 2010, just after […]
Once again we are reminded how money talks and drug companies will do whatever it takes to sell their product, even if it is illegal, not to mention unethical. The state of Maine is the latest state expected to receive in excess of $1.2 million from GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK) over […]
Boehringer Ingelheim, a German drug company and maker of the blood thinner Pradaxa, must pay the federal government $95 million in compensation for defrauding Medicare. The government charged that Boehringer Ingelheim promoted their drug “off label” meaning for uses they had not received regulatory approval by the U.S. Food and […]
The manufacturers of defective medical devices have been the focus of a number of lawsuits filed by the Mass Tort Unit of Searcy Denney this week. An individual lawsuit was filed on behalf of a Bartow, Florida woman who was implanted with a defective hernia mesh patch manufactured by Bard, […]