Mass Tort News

If Johnson & Johnson is a family company, I’m not sure if it’s a family I want to belong to. The latest black eye for the once stellar and highly respected American company is the recall of 157,000 surgical staples used to treat hemorrhoids. The Wall Street Journal reports malfunctions […]

The death toll and illnesses caused by fungal meningitis linked to a compounding pharmacy continue to rise. The New England Compounding Center (NECC), a Westborough, Massachusetts-based company, is considered responsible for infecting more than 409 people with fungal meningitis and killing 30 people. Everyone received contaminated steroid injections for pain […]

The Mass Tort Unit of Searcy Denney has filed two more individual lawsuits this week against DePuy, a division of Johnson & Johnson, over the medical device manufacturer’s recalled DePuy ASR hip implants. The firm represents several dozen plaintiffs from Florida as well as other parts of the country who […]

The Florida Department of Health (DOH) has identified a third death associated with a nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis from a contaminated steroid. The 78-year-old man was from Marion County. He had received an injection of methylprednisolone acetate prepared by the New England Compounding Center (NECC) which is implicated in […]

Today, attorneys Kelly Hyman and Brenda Fulmer filed two more individual lawsuits against Mentor Corporation relating to its ObTape transobturator product which was withdrawn from the market in March of 2006.  The first case was filed on behalf of a Gulf County, Florida woman who was implanted with the defective […]

Results of recent studies indicate that Mirapex, a drug used to treat Parkinson’s disease and restless leg syndrome, may carry a risk of heart failure. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not positively identified the risk and is working with the drug’s manufacturer, Boehringer Ingelheim, to conduct a […]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now say more people may have received a contaminated steroid injection than previously thought. Up to 14,000 patients may be at risk in this unprecedented outbreak of fungal meningitis, which could have an incubation time of up to three months. The latest […]

Victims of transvaginal mesh have additional time to file a product liability action. Rulings in multidistrict litigation (MDL) have extended the discovery time deadlines in the pre-trial process and pushed back a deadline for the lawsuits to begin. The Honorable Judge Joseph R. Goodwin, in the Southern District of West […]

You have to give it to Shirley Boles, 74 – she just doesn’t give up. Today concluded the third in a series of trials against drug giant, Merck, over the osteoporosis drug, Fosamax. Boles of Walton Beach, Florida, took the drug for nine years and developed jaw necrosis. On Tuesday, […]

It is one of the lesser known transvaginal meshes. Coloplast will now become the sixth multidistrict litigation consolidated and the fifth to be heard in the Southern District of West Virginia. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) on August 6 ordered at least 24 Coloplast federal lawsuits (MDL No. […]