The Honorable Judge Joseph R. Goodwin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia held a status conference Thursday, May 24, 2012, in the U.S. Courthouse in Charleston, West Virginia to coordinate the discovery process for the hundreds of consolidated cases filed by women around the […]
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Pradaxa, an anti-coagulant drug marketed by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, enjoyed an unusually smooth (and quick) ride towards FDA approval. Rather than spending months pouring over clinical studies and safety data, FDA employees instead approved Pradaxa based primarily on a single study and did so in just six months. Below are […]
So far this week, our firm has filed three new DePuy ASR hip implant cases in the MDL proceedings pending before Judge David A. Katz of the United States District Court in the Northern District of Ohio. These multi-district litigation proceedings related to DePuy’s recalled ASR hip implants are also […]
There have been some significant developments in the bisphosphonate litigation over the past few months. Now that the two-year anniversary of the FDA’s safety alert over atypical femur fractures has passed, we anticipate that nearly 70 to 80% of the bisphosphonate cases in the country have now been filed. The […]
Over the past year, lawyers who represent thousands of women injured by defective transvaginal mesh have faced difficult choices with regard to the proper venue for filing individual lawsuits. These medical devices have been widely used (and perhaps overused) to treat women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) or pelvic organ […]
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, […]
On December 29, 2011 the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) entered an Order consolidating all pending federal Actos bladder cancer lawsuits. Actos, generically known as pioglitazone, is a prescription medication manufactured by Takeda Pharmaceuticals and used to treat Type 2 diabetes, often referred to as adult onset diabetes. The […]
Since the 1980s, many have turned to medications such as Prozac to combat their depression. However, those who are pregnant or attempting to get pregnant need to think again before taking these drugs. In fact, Prozac, when taken during pregnancy, has resulted in many birth defects, some of which include […]
On August 10, 2011, Judge John R. Tunheim, District Court Judge in Minneapolis, held a Joint Status Conference for the coordinated mass torts proceeding involving the drug Levaquin. Currently, there are 1,314 individual lawsuits that have been transferred to MDL No. 1943 for pre-trial proceedings. Judge Tunheim has completed two […]
Please just take a moment to concentrate. Close your eyes and try to imagine that you are lying back in a bed. This bed has not had the bed clothes changed for a while and you are currently laying in feces and urine because you are not able to get […]
