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Dr Shezad Malik Law Firm has offices based in Fort Worth and Dallas and represents people who have suffered catastrophic and serious personal injuries including wrongful death, caused by the negligence or recklessness of others. We specialize in Personal Injury trial litigation and focus our energy and efforts on those we represent.

A Kansas woman, Samantha Brosseau, filed a personal injury and product liability lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the manufacturer of the blockbuster drug Zofran. Brosseau took the drug to treat pregnancy-associated morning sickness.

Allegations: Zofran Caused Hole in the Heart

According to Brosseau, Zofran caused her daughter to be born with an atrial septal defect or a hole in the heart. Atrial septal defect can be a serious life threatening heart condition, which can only be corrected by invasive cardiology procedures or in severe cases, open heart surgery.

Brosseau alleges that GSK failed to warn pregnant mothers about the congenital heart defect risks with Zofran. Brosseau claims that her daughter, K.C., was born with hole in the heart from intra-uterine exposure to Zofran during the first trimester of pregnancy.

What is Zofran?

Zofran is a drug developed by GSK, and approved by the FDA in 1991, only for the treatment of nausea and vomiting in cancer patients after chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. GSK through aggressive marketing aimed at pregnant women and their doctors, has made Zofran the single most popular drug for the treatment of morning sickness.

Pharmaceutical companies are not allowed to promote or market drugs to patients beyond their approved use by the FDA. This is known as “off-label” marketing.

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The number of Xarelto bleeding injury and product liability lawsuits have exploded, with close to 2,500 cases being filed in the federal court that has been designated as the multi-district litigation venue.

Since December 2014, all federal product liability lawsuits filed against Bayer and Johnson & Johnson over the bleeding side effects of Xarelto have been centralized and consolidated before U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon in the Eastern District of Louisiana as part of an MDL, or multi-district litigation.

Lawsuits against Bayer and Johnson & Johnson are consolidated in two courts, a multidistrict litigation court in the Eastern District of Louisiana and a mass tort litigation court in Philadelphia.

The MDL in Louisiana contains 2,442 federal lawsuits as of December 15, and the state mass tortcourt in Philadelphia contains more than 500 lawsuits.

4 Xarelto Bellwether Trials Set

Judge Fallon set a series of four bellwether trials to go before juries in the Spring of 2017. The number of Xarelto lawsuits continue to be filed by individuals across the United States, alleging severe and deadly bleeding complications.

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The truth is that thousands of people have been severely injured by the side effects of these medical devices. And shockingly the injuries were avoidable simply enough by the timely and diligent removal of these temporary devices.

Bard IVC FILTER Injury AttorneyEvery year, thousands of patients are implanted with a retrieval inferior vena cava filters (IVC) but they are not warned by doctors about the risk of injury from these temporary devices.

And as time passes, patients tend to forget that they had this device implanted and the first inkling that they had the device, is when they suffer serious injury from a complication.

According to some experts, there is a very high failure rate with these devices, which only increases with the duration of the filter in the body, eventually all of the devices will fail. So 100% failure of the device becomes not a question of “if” but “when.”

What is an IVC Filter?

The filter devices are used when there is a blood clot in the leg known as a deep vein thrombosis and there is a contraindication to using blood thinners, which is the standard therapy for leg blood clots.

These devices are supposed to trap blood clots from traveling from the leg to the lungs and causing a pulmonary embolism, which can be fatal.

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Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant had a runaway hit on their hands when they developed and sold their blockbuster drug, Viagra. Now, allegations are surfacing in many Viagra melanoma lawsuits, claiming that Pfizer failed to warn patients and doctors about the melanoma skin cancer link associated with the erectile dysfunction medication.

Viagra Melanoma Lawsuits on the rise

Recently, two lawsuits were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in which the plaintiffs allege that Pfizer knew or should have known about the melanoma skin cancer risk associated with Viagra for years.

According to Amador Herrara’s claim, Herrara was diagnosed with melanoma after using Viagra for many years.

Herrara has undergone many surgeries and alleges that he must remain watchful for the reappearance of the deadly skin cancer.

Another plaintiff, Dennis Andrews, filed a Viagra lawsuit, claiming that he developed malignant melanoma after using Viagra for many years. Andrews also underwent many surgeries and skin grafts. According to Andrews claims that must carefully monitor for signs of the melanoma skin cancer’s return.

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Short answer, yes, by causing the spread of undiagnosed malignant uterine cancer. In American women who are of reproductive age, Hysterectomy is the second most frequently performed surgical procedure (after cesarean section). The majority of these hysterectomies are performed laparoscopically.

Uterine_Cancer_Hysterectomy_AttorneyAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), from 2006-2010, 11.7 percent of women between the ages of 40-44 had a hysterectomy.

Approximately 600,000 hysterectomies are performed annually in the United States, and approximately 20 million American women have had a hysterectomy.

By the age of 60, more than one third of all women have had a hysterectomy. According to the National Women’s Health Network (NWHN) unnecessary hysterectomies have put women at risk, and that doctors should search for hysterectomy alternatives before performing  life-changing operations.

What is Laparoscopic Hysterectomy?

Minimally invasive or laparoscopic removal of the uterus, is know as hysterectomy and typically performed for the treatment of fibroids or benign tumors of the uterus. During the surgery, many doctors remove the uterus in pieces using a mechanical grinding or chopping device known as a power morcellator.

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There are a shocking number of metal on metal hip implant replacement failures. The epidemic of premature metal on metal hip implant failure continues surge at an alarming rate. DePuy ASR, DePuy Pinnacle, Biomet M2A Magnum, Smith and Nephew Birmingham and R3, Wright Profemur and Conserve, Zimmer Durom cup and Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II and Encore, are among hip replacements that continue to fail prematurely and require painful and risky revision surgery.

Hip_Implant_Failure_AttorneyTotal Number of DePuy ASR Settlements Exceeds 9,400 Cases

Johnson and Johnson (J&J) and its subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics, has agreed to add another 1,400 hip injury claims to a settlement agreement reached in 2013. This new agreement extends the deal to include recalled ASR implants that were revised as of January 31, 2015.

J&J had initially agreed to settle about 8,000 ASR lawsuit cases, that folks brought when their hip replacement failed and had to be removed prior to August 31, 2013. The initial agreement left several thousand DePuy ASR hip lawsuits in limbo.

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Recently, earlier in October after hearing arguments, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) has consolidated and centralized all federal Zofran lawsuits before U.S. District Judge Dennis Saylor, in the District of Massachusetts, for coordinated discovery and pretrial proceedings.

What is Zofran?

Zofran (ondansetron) is a drug approved for treatment of nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy and surgery. Zofran is manufactured by pharma powerhouse, GlaxoSmithKline.

But it has been prescribed increasingly “off-label” to treat morning sickness and hyperemesis gravidarum among pregnant women. In other words, prescribed by doctors for other uses, other than those medical indications approved by the FDA.

Many Zofran birth defect lawsuits, share similar allegations that the popular anti-nausea medication was illegally marketed for use among pregnant women, even though the manufacturers failed to notify the FDA that it was safe or effective for pregnant women and fetuses.

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Metal on metal hip implants have another premature hip implant failure and metallosis disaster to account for. Recently, another metal hip implant fiasco and recall has hit the airways and garnered the strongest warning/recall from the FDA.

Wright Conserve metallosis attorneyThe FDA recently announced the Profemur hip recall for the Long Cobalt Chrome 8 Degree Varus/Valgus Modular Neck, noting that it is a Class I medical device recall.

The epidemic of premature metal on metal hip implant failure continues surge at an alarming rate. DePuy ASR, DePuy Pinnacle, Biomet Magnum & M2a, Smith and Nephew, Wright Conserve, Zimmer Durom cup and Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II, are among hip replacements that continue to fail prematurely and require painful and risky revision surgery.

11,000 Affected Profemur Modular Neck Components

There are high rates of hip implant fractures has led to the recall of nearly 11,000 Profemur Varus/Valgus modular neck components for artificial hip replacement systems.

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Lawsuits filed against Cook Medical over their defective IVC filters are gaining traction and moving towards trial. U.S. District Judge Young is overseeing the federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) and has announced that a group of 10 Cook Medical inferior vena cava (IVC) filter lawsuits have been chosen for early trial dates that will begin late 2016.

Bard IVC FILTER Injury AttorneyFederal Cook MDL In Indiana

All Cook Celect and Cook Gunther Tulip IVC filter lawsuits have been consolidated in a MDL, in the Southern District of Indiana for fast track discovery and pretrial proceedings, since October 2014. According to the latest court house data, there are about 200 lawsuits filed against Cook Medical, that have been consolidated and centralized in Indiana.

What’s The Problem With Cook IVC Filters?

Inferior vena cava (IVC) filters, are small, implantable metal devices for patients at risk of a pulmonary embolism or a blood clot to the lung. These folks have contraindications to the standard therapy for blood clots, anticoagulants. The filters block blood clots from traveling to the heart or lungs, from the legs, known as a deep vein thrombosis.

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Takeda Pharmaceuticals has decided to wrap up the remaining Actos linked bladder cancer lawsuits. Takeda settled two more claims this week, after a two-month trial in Nevada state court.

Actos_Bladder_Cancer_AttorneyRecently, Takeda ear-marked $2.4 billion for settlements to settle thousands of personal injury and defective product liability lawsuits brought by diabetic patients who were diagnosed with bladder cancer after using Actos.

Actos Settlement Band Wagon Keeps On Rolling

In September, Takeda said that 96% of Actos claimants signed up for its $2.3 billion settlement offer, settling most of the 8,000 plus cases pending in state and federal courts.

On other fronts, Takeda settled the 7 out of 9 cases that had been tried and were up on appeal. Takeda also agreed to toss in an extra $100 million if 97% of claims matched up with settlement criteria. Takeda is trying close down the Actos bladder litigation, by encouraging as many plaintiffs as possible to settle their injury claims and keep the settlement band wagon rolling on.

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