On February 12, 2015, a Philadelphia jury awarded a $3.6 million dollar verdict, which included a $1.3 million punitive damage award, to John Kristufek, a former Pennsylvanian educator, who alleged that pharma giant Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.’s Actos diabetes drug was...
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Takeda Held Responsible in First Federal Actos Bellwether Trial
After 34 days of trial, a Lafayette, Louisiana jury returned its verdict against Takeda and Lilly and ordered the PHARMA giants to pay $1.475 million in compensatory damages and $8 billion in punitive damages for injuries including bladder cancer to Terrance Allen, a...
Actos Trial Underway in Louisiana
Terry Allen, a retired hardware store manager is the plaintiff in the case currently in trial against pharmaceutical giant Takeda, the manufacturer of Actos, the diabetes drug that Allen and his experts say caused him to have bladder cancer. (See In Re Actos...
Big Pharma: Is Paying Big Fines More Profitable than Telling Doctors and Consumers the Truth in Marketing?
This week, Johnson & Johnson etched its name in the history books of another big pharma company that has been fined over billions of dollars due to a drug manufacturer practices of improper marketing and failure to warn. Johnson & Johnson pled guilty to...
Another Plaintiffs Actos verdict, Another Verdict Thrown Out by Trial Judge
On September 26, 2013, a jury in Baltimore, Maryland, found that Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. did not properly warn Diep An, an ex-U.S. Army translator, and his doctor about the risks of its Actos diabetes drug and ordered the company to pay more than $1.7 million in...
Second Actos Trial Begins
Lawyers for the family of Diep An told a Baltimore jury that drug giant Takeda’s failure to tell the whole truth about Actos role in the increased risk of cancer was the cause of death, as opening statements got under way. This case will provide further insight into...
Takeda’s Future after Losing Actos Patent
In 2012, Takeda’s profit dropped 53% and net profit was down 14% in the last nine months of 2012. Why? Because medical studies have demonstrated the causal connection between Takeda’s flagship diabetes drug Actos and bladder cancer and Takeda also lost its exclusivity...
Who is Responsible for J&J’s DePuy ASR, Pinnacle, Ethicon’s Gynecare, and Merck’s Vioxx and Fosamax?
Consumers injured by defective devices face an armada of attorneys as they seek to hold accountable device makers such as J&J’s hip implants DePuy ASR, DePuy Pinnacle, J&J’s transvaginal mesh product Ethicon, and Merck’s FOSAMAX that has left countless post...
Trial Judge Overturns $6.5 Million Cooper vs. Takeda Actos Verdict
Overturning a recent $6.5 million dollar verdict for Plaintiff Jack Cooper in Cooper vs. Takeda (Cooper v. Takeda Pharmaceuticals America Inc., CGC-12-518535, California Superior Court, Los Angeles), on May 1, 2013 the Hon. Kenneth Freeman granted two key Takeda’s...
6.5 Million Dollar Jury Verdict in First Actos Trial
On April 26, 2013, a Los Angeles jury found Takeda liable for injuries including bladder cancer sustained by Jack Cooper, a former Pacific Bell telephone cable splicer, and returned a verdict of $6.5 million (Cooper v. Takeda Pharmaceuticals America Inc.,...