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 […]
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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?
Wow, the federal regulatory agency, Federal trade Commission (FTC), has taken a firm stand on products that promise “a better way to a better butt”. The FTC has reached a settlement with shoemaker, Reebok, over its claims concerning the popular EasyTone shoes. I must confess that until reading the article […]
Your blood needs to clot, but it is a delicate balance. Insufficient clotting leads to excessive bleeding and too much clotting leads to obstructed blood flow, pulmonary embolism and strokes. So, it is understandable that the Food & Drug Administration became worried about reports that birth control medications containing drospirenone […]
Multidistrict litigation proceedings against Matrixx Initiatives, Inc., the manufacturer of the over-the-counter cold product Zicam, are heating up. This is a process known as multidistrict litigation (or an MDL) and is often utilized in mass tort cases where a number of claimants have been injured in a similar fashion by […]
The Food & Drug Administration has recently notified Eli Lilly & Co. and Bayer Healthcare that it has objections to ads used for some of their drugs. For Eli Lilly, it was print advertisements for its depression drug, Cymbalta. Print ads used on WebMD Little Blue Book; a publication to […]
