The NuvaRing New Jersey court has just announced today that a settlement agreement has been reached between Plaintiffs’ counsel and Merck for a sum of $100 million. NuvaRing is a popular contraceptive among women that increases the risk for fatal blood clots. The device is produced by Merck and its […]

Mass tort litigation has been pending against the manufacturers of NuvaRing for many years now and is hopefully drawing to a close in the coming months.  The litigation is primarily based in federal court in St. Louis, Missouri, where MDL No. 1964 has been pending since 2008.  The MDL is […]

The Top Ten of anything usually designates the ‘best’ but not in this case. An online report from Adverse Events Inc., an independent company that analyzes the FDA’s database of Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS), has just issued its Top Ten list of Dangerous Drugs for the second quarter Q2 […]

Women who are trying to make decisions about a safe and effective form of birth control are having a hard time these days. On the heels of reports that Yaz, Bayer’s number one selling oral birth control pill was linked to abnormally high incidence of blood clotting disorders, it is […]

Attorney Brenda Fulmer of the Mass Tort Unit at Searcy Denney filed a products liability lawsuit today against the manufacturers of NuvaRing. NuvaRing is a novel medical device that is used for contraceptive.  It has become a popular product used by young girls and women due to the convenience 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 […]

The Mass Tort unit of Searcy Denney has filed a lawsuit in Palm Beach County Circuit Court today on behalf of a woman who developed gallbladder disease as a result of her ingestion of Yasmin, a “fourth generation” birth control pill manufactured and marketed by Bayer Corporation. This plaintiff was […]

Searcy Denney has filed a personal injury lawsuit on behalf of a Bradenton woman for injuries sustained by the mother after ingesting Yasmin and Ocella for nearly two years. The individual claim was filed in the Manatee County Circuit Court in Bradenton, but will likely be transferred to the multi-district […]

Let’s say you want to form a committee to evaluate the safety of a drug; say for example the drugs Yaz, Ocella and Yasmin. You begin by looking for people who are “experts” about the drug, the ingredients in the drug and the use of the drug. You find 26 […]

Has it simply become all about bean counters and number crunching for some drug companies?

If you can generate over $1.5.8 billion in sales for (5) years, for a drug you know is defective, can you afford to pay the claims that result from people being hurt or killed?