In early December, a Philadelphia state court ruled against the makers of the anticoagulant Xarelto, ordering them to pay $27.8 million in damages due to their failure to warn patients and the medical community about the drug’s potential to cause internal bleeding. Drug makers Bayer AG and Johnson & Johnson... Read more »

The presiding judge in the coordinated Xarelto lawsuit proceedings has issued a case management order stipulating the injury categories into which cases must be grouped to be considered for potential bellwether trials, which are expected to take place in 2017 as part of the multidistrict litigation (MDL 2592) created to manage... Read more »

A plaintiff that filed a Xarelto lawsuit in Georgia alleges use of the drug led to life-threatening bleeding, permanent injury and loss of enjoyment of life. The plaintiff further states that Xarelto manufacturer Janssen Pharmaceuticals, as well as Janssen’s mother company Bayer, failed to provide proper warning about the risks... Read more »

To date, about 100 Xarelto lawsuits filed in federal court systems have been centralized into a multidistrict litigation (MDL), which is proceeding in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Judge Eldon E. Fallon is presiding over the MDL, which was established in December 2014 by the... Read more »

A motion to establish a multidistrict litigation (MDL) encompassing a growing number of Xarelto bleeding injury lawsuits will be heard on December 4 before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. The judges who are part of the panel will consider the merits of forming the MDL as a response... Read more »

Plaintiffs across the country have filed at least 21 Xarelto lawsuits against the maker of the popular blood thinner. The product liability lawsuits have been filed in 10 separate federal district courts. A group of the federal plaintiffs have now filed a motion for transfer requesting that the U.S. Judicial... Read more »