There are approximately 29,000 mesh cases pending against Johnson & Johnson, C.R. Bard, Boston Scientific, Cook Medical Systems and Endo Health Solutions before Judge Joseph Goodwin in West Virginia. Reportedly, settlement talks are ongoing in some form with some...
Drug and Medical Device Litigation
Lipitor Type 2 Diabetes Litigation Heating up
Countless people who took Lipitor (Atorvastatin) and were later diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are seeking to hold Pfizer and its distributors responsible. In California, cases filed throughout the State have been coordinated before Judge Jane Johnson in Los Angeles...
Big Pharma Fined $3.75 Billion in Fraud Penalties in Fiscal 2013
According to the U.S. Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services, these departments recovered $4.3 billion in criminal and civil fines in the 2013 fiscal year, which ended in September 2013. This is a $100 million increase from the 2012 fiscal year. The...
Endo Health Solutions Saving $520 Million to Fund Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuits While Settling Off Label Marketing Claims for Lidoderm
In 2011, Endo Health Solutions bought American Medical Systems, one of the manufacturers who is currently embroiled in the transvaginal mesh litigation, with over 5,000 pending lawsuits before Judge Joseph Goodwin. In 2008, women who used these devices began filing...
Pfizer’s Lipitor Faces Colluding Charges in Australia
Amid the growing lawsuits and controversy that Pfizer’s Lipitor causes type-2 diabetes in female patients between the ages of 50 and 79 with BMI (Body Mass Index) below 30, (See California coordinated Lipitor cases in Los Angeles Superior Court JCCP no. 4761; In re...
A Brief Review of The Trial Testimony and Directed Verdict for Ethicon in Carolyn Lewis Mesh Bellwether Case
On February 18, 2014, Judge Joseph Goodwin granted Ethicon’s Motion for Directed Verdict at the close of Plaintiff’s case in Lewis vs. Ethicon, Inc. (In Re: Ethicon, Inc., Pelvic Repair System Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 2327, Carolyn Lewis, et al....
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...
Johnson & Johnson Mesh Trial Set to Begin
The first trial against Johnson & Johnson’s line of vaginal mesh products was set to commence February 10, 2014 in U.S. District in West Virginia. Judge Joseph Goodwin will preside over the case, Carolyn Lewis, et al. v. Johnson & Johnson, et al.,...
Government Going After Doctor Kickbacks
In the history of drug litigation, one fact that clearly emerged is that companies paid doctors a lot of money or provided a great deal of free samples and gifts to promote their drugs. Many times the doctors were “thought leaders” or provided stipends to make...
In 2013, Lipitor, Diabetes, and Post Menopausal Women Controversy Finally Gets Attention
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