Thousands of plaintiffs who have filed lawsuits regarding Nexium, Prilosec, and similar medications have been looking forward to having their claims heard in court. However, the process of selecting cases for bellwether trials has hit a snag. Originally, the court instructed the involved parties to submit their final, agreed-upon plan... Read more »

Daily use of talcum powder for over 30 years has resulted in a case of ovarian cancer, alleges a new lawsuit filed against Johnson & Johnson and Imerys Talc America. The plaintiff, Rebecca Lichtenfels, filed her product liability lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on... Read more »

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 »

There are more than 10,000 talc powder lawsuits pending against Johnson & Johnson. Most of them are pending in the multidistrict litigation (MDL) in federal court, and the rest are pending in state courts around the country. The product liability lawsuits raise similar claims: That Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder... Read more »

Hundreds of testosterone lawsuits have been officially resolved now that the master settlement agreement has been finalized, as of late July 2018. The settlement agreement only applies to Androderm lawsuits filed against Actavis and Allergan. Thousands of other testosterone lawsuits have been filed against other manufacturers in recent years. This... Read more »

Actavis, the makers of Androderm, has announced that there is a tentative settlement agreement in place that would resolve roughly 500 lawsuits. The plaintiffs involved with the litigation allege that they suffered serious complications as a result of their use of the defendants’ medicated testosterone patch. Actavis, which was acquired... Read more »

Plaintiffs who have filed product liability lawsuits against the manufacturers of popular proton pump inhibitors have requested that the judge schedule trial dates. The lawsuits were filed after plaintiffs claimed they sustained complications, including kidney injuries, after taking PPIs like Nexium, Prilosec, Prevacid, and Protonix. About 4,200 lawsuits have been... Read more »

Hundreds of plaintiffs and the defendant, Eli Lilly and Company, reached a global settlement agreement that resolves all federally filed Axiron lawsuits pending against the pharmaceutical giant. The move prompted the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, which had been overseeing the multidistrict litigation (MDL), to vacate... Read more »

A jury in California recently ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $417 million to a woman who sued the manufacturing giant over the allegation that her long-term use of J&J talc powder led her to develop ovarian cancer. The award includes $347 in punitive damages, which are intended to punish... Read more »