A resident of Delaware claims that the popular shingles vaccine, Zostavax, caused him to develop severe problems with his eyes and vision. Leroy Crawley filed his product liability lawsuit on January 3, 2019 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, where it joins other Zostavax lawsuits... Read more »

A motion was recently filed with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) that seeks to consolidate federal complaints filed with regard to valsartan, a generic hypertension drug. The motion was filed late in October 2018 by Robert Kruk on behalf of himself and other plaintiffs with pending valsartan lawsuits. Kruk... Read more »

A lawsuit brought in late April alleges that the manufacturers of Nexium and Prevacid withheld information about dangerous side effects. The suit, brought by Idaho resident Terry Buzbee, states that after taking the two drugs, he suffered from an acute kidney injury. He had to be hospitalized and still needs... Read more »

A woman has filed a talcum powder lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, alleging the pharmaceutical giant failed to warn women about the potential risks associated with using their products containing talc. The plaintiff claims she used the products regularly for many years, leading to a diagnosis of ovarian cancer in... Read more »

Eight Androgel lawsuits have been selected out of around 5,500 cases currently pending to serve as bellwether trials in the coordinated litigation. The bellwether trials are carefully selected to provide insight into how juries might respond to evidence and testimony in future trials. These early trials also can serve as... Read more »

A woman that developed ketoacidosis after taking the diabetes drug Invokana has filed a lawsuit against the drug’s manufacturers. Sheryl Desalis is claiming in her complaint that Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson and Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma failed to provide proper warnings about the risks of diabetic ketoacidosis associated with their... Read more »

Recent large scale epidemiological and retrospective studies have demonstrated links between the use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and an increased risk of renal failure, myocardial infarction and dementia. On top of this, medical experts say that up to 70 percent of patients that take PPIs for treatment of heartburn... Read more »

The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is tasked with the tremendous responsibility of keeping American consumers safe from dangerous drugs and medical devices. Accordingly, the agency has not only implemented strict pre-market testing and screening measures for new products, but it is required to monitor the products after their... Read more »

In December 2015, non-profit group Public Citizen published a report highlighting a provision in the proposed 21st Century Cures Act that could cost taxpayers $12 billion — and that’s just one of the expenses. The report — written by Sammy Almashat and Sarah Sorscher of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group... Read more »

Federal regulations are currently in effect to ensure adverse events associated with prescription drugs are reported promptly to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). However, a new analysis of adverse event reporting has discovered some drug manufacturers may be neglecting those federal guidelines, which could be putting the lives... Read more »