Mass Tort News

AstraZeneca has agreed to pay $26 million to settle litigation involving the atypical antipsychotic, Seroquel. The South Carolina Attorney General had been after the company to reimburse state taxpayers for the off-label use of Seroquel. The company, along with other drugmakers, had challenged states that hire product liability attorneys on contingency […]

Imagine having a surgery that’s gone terribly wrong, only to discover – too late – that the doctors used a medical device its manufacturer knew could be dangerous, and worse, one that snuck right past the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Couldn’t happen in this country? Wrong. More than 1,000 […]

Physicians from American University in Lebanon published a case report regarding Pradaxa (dabigatran etexilate) that was published in the July 28, 2012, edition of the Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis.  In this article, the authors wrote about an 85 year old patient who developed shortness of breath, anemia, and white […]

Virtually all Rejuvenate and ABG II patients have received notice from their doctor that the devices have been recalled. These patients are all now faced with the prospect of a painful and risky revision surgery. Rejuvenate and ABG II victims can basically be placed into three categories. I know. I’ve […]

A federal judge has scheduled proceedings for the first of two test trials in the Actos litigation. The bellwether trials, as they are known, are set for November 3, 2014, and January 12, 2015 in the multidistrict litigation consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. […]

C.R. Bard Inc. must pay a Bakersfield woman $5.5 million in damages in what promises to be the first of thousands of vaginal mesh injury cases to go to trial. Jurors in a Bakersfield, California state court determined July 20th, that the Avaulta Plus Biosynthetic Support System vaginal implant caused […]

A panel of federal judges will meet on Thursday, July 26, to determine whether it will be necessary to create a sixth multidistrict litigation (MDL), expanding the litigation from the current five vaginal mesh MDLs. Four MDLs are consolidated in Charleston, West Virginia in the U.S. District Court for the […]

It used to be that the arms industry was the bad boy of all industries. Move over! Big Pharma has now topped the gun trade with a $3 billion fine imposed on GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Britain’s largest pharmaceutical company, GSK, was just busted for offering lavish incentives to doctors to promote […]

Two new lawsuits were filed this week against Bayer Corporation by Cal Warriner and Brenda Fulmer on behalf of clients from Oregon. The first lawsuit involves a 37 year old single woman employed in the accounting industry from Portland, Oregon. She ingested both Yaz and Gianvi for less than a year […]

The Searcy Denney Mass Tort Unit would like to thank our client, Howard Sadwin of Sarasota, Florida, for his poignant statements today before the Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee for the Food and Drug Administration. The hearings were convened in Gaithersburg, Maryland.  In addition […]