General Motors (GM) Co., is exposed to a barrage of lawsuits in the U.S. and Canada over faulty ignition switches. According to sources, GM was served with the first wrongful-death suit involving two fatalities in a 2006 car crash. GM recalled 1.6 million vehicles in February. Plaintiff Cobalt Death Claims…
According to the U.S. federal court where the Stryker Rejuvenate hip lawsuits have been consolidated, the cases in the multidistrict litigation (MDL) will be ready for trial during the summer of 2015. Stryker Rejuvenate cases, are heading to early trial dates, known as “bellwether” trials, which helps the parties determine…
AbbVie, the manufacturer of AndroGel, is exposed to another product liability lawsuit. Kimberly Dula, from Georgia claims that the company failed to warn about the heart risks from AndroGel. Dula claims that he suffered three heart attacks as a result of using the testosterone gel. 49 year old Dula filed…
The first St. Jude Riata federal bellwether trial has been scheduled for February 2015. This trial involves two filed product liability lawsuits against St. Jude. U.S. District Judge James V. Selna is presiding over the St. Jude Riata lawsuits filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of…
A 58-year-old California man who suffered injuries after using the testosterone therapy Testim has sued manufacturer Auxilium Pharmaceuticals Inc., claiming it coordinated a massive ad campaign to aggressively promote the need for its product while failing to warn users of life-threatening side effects. In a Feb. 26 lawsuit filed in…
According to confidential sources and a news report in Bloomberg, Coloplast A/S, has agreed to pay about $16 million to settle its transvaginal mesh lawsuits. Injured women who were implanted with the Danish mesh manufacturer’s vaginal-mesh inserts had filed personal injury claims against the company. The Denmark-based Coloplast agreed in…
Ten years ago some scientists recruited several hundred volunteers and gave them Testosterone or a placebo. Those taking testosterone got stronger, compared with those taking the placebo, and they could carry a load up stairs faster. But they also had nearly five times the number of cardiovascular problems, including heart…
According to newly unsealed legal documents, Boehringer Ingelheim, the manufacturer of the blood-thinning drug Pradaxa were anxious that an internal research paper would damage drug sales and they suggested it should be suppressed. Key Documents Unsealed The key documents were recently made public by Chief Judge David Herndon in Illinois…
As previously mentioned in this blog, we believe there are serious medical risks from the use of testosterone gel supplements and plaintiffs agree with us. Several recent medical studies have found an increased risk of heart attacks from AndroGel and other testosterone treatments. The manufacturers of the blockbuster testosterone gel…
Great news for folks injured by Actos diabetes drug and who have filed personal injury lawsuits. As most people know the first federal Actos trial has started on Monday February 3rd. The jury has been picked and is ready to go into a marathon trial expected to last several weeks.…