In a column in the Washington Post (8/6), Petula Dvorak writes, “Over their fences, at community picnics but mostly at funerals, the people of one Frederick neighborhood near Fort Detrick wondered whether it was just a horrible coincidence that so many of them had cancer.” They “immediately looked to their…
Bloomberg News (8/9, Feeley, Kelley) reports, “AstraZeneca Plc will pay about $198 million to settle 17,500 lawsuits, or about two-thirds of the total, alleging its antipsychotic drug Seroquel causes diabetes in some users.” AstraZeneca “previously agreed to pay at least $55 million to resolve more than 5,500 cases alleging the…
Bayer drug companies have produced more than 10 million pages of documents to women suing over oral contraceptives Yasmin and Yaz. U.S. District Judge David Herndon, is handling about 2,000 Yasmin and Yaz suits from around the nation, and he has posted an order on July 9, reminding plaintiffs of…
ACCUTANE STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME: In February 2010, Health Canada reported that it had received reports of severe skin reactions, including sometimes fatal reaction known as Stevens-Johnson Syndrome from Accutane. At least 66 reports of Accutane skin reactions were identified by Health Canada, including adults and children, with two of the cases…
The number of Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella lawsuits that are part of a mass tort docket in New Jersey has increased significantly since the product liability cases were consolidated in February. The number of Yaz lawsuits, Yasmin lawsuits and Ocella lawsuits centralized in Bergen County Superior Court has gone from…
A Wyoming jury has awarded $3.7 million to a local man who developed lung cancer after 37 years of working for BNSF Railway. Edward Roger Jolley claimed in his lawsuit that years of breathing in diesel fumes, silicone dust and asbestos while at work caused his cancer. His condition is…
A $750,000 settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against a Jefferson County, Ill., police officer who allegedly used a stun gun unnecessarily on three teenagers and assaulted another. According to the suit, Deputy David Bowers used the stun gun on the teens at the Southern Thirty Adolescent Center two…
“Roche Holding AG won reversal of a $10.5 million verdict over its Accutane [isotretinoin] acne drug because a judge improperly barred the company from using evidence about the medication’s use,” according to an appeals court ruling made in Kendall v. Hoffmann LaRoche Inc., ATL- L-8213-05, New Jersey Superior Court, Atlantic…
A lawsuit in south Texas has been filed against British Petroleum over pollutants leaking out of the company’s Texas City refinery. The lawsuit claims more than 500,000 pounds of pollutants were released into the air when one of the compressors went offline in April. The citizens of Texas City experienced…
A Friendswood attorney filed a federal lawsuit over the release of more than 500,000 pounds of pollutants — including high levels of benzene — into the air after a unit failure at BP’s Texas City refinery. The lawsuit seeks monetary damages in the release of pollutants between April 6 and…