A Texas man has filed a Xarelto lawsuit against Janssen Pharmaceuticals, claiming the drug caused him to suffer a number of serious health issues. Anthony L. Romaniello was prescribed Xarelto by his physician for atrial fibrillation on January 5, 2013. He continued to use the drug until approximately April 24,... Read more »

  Another lawsuit has been transferred to the Xarelto multidistrict litigation (MDL) No. 2592, which is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana under Judge Fallon. The plaintiff, Cheryl Butler, claims the defendants, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, et al. fraudulently misrepresented the safety of the... Read more »

For patients suffering from the condition known as atrial fibrillation – or “A-fib” – an anti-coagulant drug is often used to help prevent the formation of deadly blood clots. For generations, doctors prescribed the drug known as warfarin to A-fib patients, until the newer blood thinning drug Xarelto was introduced... Read more »

In addition to a growing number of cases in the United States, Bayer now faces a Xarelto class action lawsuit in Canada. Plaintiff Betty Samson filed the complaint in Calgary and another is likely to follow in Ontario, where an elderly woman bled to death while taking the drug. The complaint includes... Read more »

JAMA Internal Medicine recently published a study by Charles Seife that highlights a profound flaw in how consumers obtain information about clinical drug trials. According to the New York University professor, only 4 percent of questionable practices or violations discovered by health regulators during pharmaceutical trials ever reaches the public.... Read more »

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is charged with overseeing the safety and efficacy of new prescription medications for eventual approval. This process involves reviewing sites where clinical trials on medications are performed. Occasionally, health officials discover evidence that drug companies and their researchers have deviated from good clinical practice... 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 »

Administrative Judge Kevin Dougherty of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas recently issued an order that has created a mass tort docket for Xarelto lawsuits filed against Janssen Pharmaceuticals and Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals. The January 21, 2015 order affects at least 75 cases that share common allegations regarding the medication,... Read more »

Fraudulent concealment, negligence and fraud are just some of the causes of action leveled against Xarelto manufacturers by a California plaintiff who suffered personal injuries after ingesting the drug. The product liability lawsuit is just one of dozens which claim the anticoagulant is defective and inherently dangerous due to its... Read more »

Over the past several years, the highly-anticipated next-generation blood thinner Xarelto has transformed from an exciting new addition to the American drug market to a potentially dangerous, even life-threatening treatment. Xarelto, which was designed and manufactured by Bayer and Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen, has been named in 21 federal... Read more »