On March 27, 2015, a former Risperdal patient filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against several drug manufacturers, including Janssen Pharmaceuticals and Johnson & Johnson. The complaint is one of several ongoing causes of action against the makers of the powerful antipsychotic drug, which... Read more »

Even as popular diabetes drugs like Januvia and Actos continue to come under scrutiny, another diabetes drug has recently made headlines. Concerns over Onglyza heart failure have prompted a review by an FDA panel, which could lead to a label change for this drug and others like it. As “mortality”... Read more »

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) is a panel of federal judges that is authorized to determine whether civil actions pending in district courts should be moved to one federal court for consolidated pretrial proceedings. This centralization of cases is meant to help conserve judicial resources, reduce chance of duplicative... 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 »

A Texas resident has filed a GranuFlo lawsuit over a heart attack that he suffered allegedly as the result of the dialysis product during his dialysis treatment at a Fresenius medical facility in California. The complaint was filed in the US District Court, District of Massachusetts on April 1, 2015.... Read more »

An Alabama mother and her nine-year-old son have filed a Zofran lawsuit. The mother’s doctor ordered her to begin taking the drug while she was pregnant, in January 2006, to combat nausea. The baby was born on August 12, 2006 and shortly after, doctors discovered he had a high, narrow... Read more »

In a recent complaint against Zofran manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), two Montana parents have alleged significant failures by GSK to properly warn women of the allegedly known risks of congenital birth defects in babies exposed to the drug in utero. The complaint includes the full history of the testing and approval of... Read more »

A class action lawsuit brought against baby powder manufacturer Johnson & Johnson has been dismissed by a federal judge, because allegations by the plaintiff did not include any documented injuries. However, many other baby powder cancer lawsuits are currently pending across the country, filed by women who did indeed suffer... Read more »

When is paying $2.2 billion ever a bargain? According to University of Michigan professor and class action settlement expert Eric Gordon, Japanese drug giant Takeda’s decision to offer one of the largest drug settlements in US history to settle 8,ooo pending lawsuits against it may be just that. Actos users... 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 »