By Civil Justice Magazine
Posted on 10 February 2014. Tags: Appellate Court, food and drug administration, Infuse, Medtronic, negligence lawsuit, off-label use
Medtronic may not be a big fan of the Appellate Court these days, and with good reason. The company is back to facing a negligence lawsuit because of an off-label use of their product Infuse. The situation goes like this; a male patient underwent spinal surgery. The surgeon used Infuse. The patient went numb. A […]
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Posted on 07 February 2014. Tags: discrimination lawsuit, Johnson & Johnson
Whatever you think of their products, there’s no denying – J&J always wins in appellate cases. Fernando A. Portes hired two lawyers – Herbert Tan and Eldridge Hawkins – to represent him in a discrimination lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson. He lost that lawsuit. So Mr. Portes tried again; this time, he sued his former […]
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Posted on 07 February 2014. Tags: blood clots, lack of warning, Merck & Co., NuvaRing
The contraceptive NuvaRing, made by Merck & Co., had some unexpected and potentially deadly side effects. Allegedly, the device caused fatal blood clots – clots which induced heart attacks in some women. More than 1700 lawsuits were filed in Missouri and New Jersey; rather than continue in court, Merck has agreed to pay more than […]
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Posted on 06 February 2014. Tags: 9/11, Victim Compensation Fund
The New York Daily News (1/31, Straw, 3.94M) reports in its “DC” blog that even though more people are being awarded monies from the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, the amount of claims being processed still aren’t enough – and they aren’t being processed at a fast enough rate. In mid-January of 2014, the VCF ruled that nearly […]
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Posted on 06 February 2014. Tags: Biomet, Biomet M2a-38, hip replacements, M2a-Magnum, medical device manufacturer, multidistrict litigation
On Monday Feb. 3, Biomet became the latest company to make a settlement in a case against it involving defective hip implants. In a multidistrict litigation held in Indiana, Biomet agreed to pay at least $56 million to the hundreds of plaintiffs which filed against the medical device manufacturer. The case had been going on […]
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Posted on 06 February 2014. Tags: multidistrict litigation, Pradaxa, Unseals Documents
The Pradaxa lawsuits are getting more and more complicated. A federal judge in Illinois has unsealed dozens of documents previously marked “confidential” in the multidistrict litigation against Boehringer Ingelheim International, makers of the blood thinner Pradaxa. The defendants originally claimed that these documents contained “nonpublic internal communications,” as well as “sensitive proprietary information” which could […]
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