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 »

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 »

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 »

A new testosterone therapy lawsuit has been filed by a Georgia couple over the heart attack suffered by the husband while he was taking Axiron, a testosterone replacement treatment produced by Eli Lilly. The complaint was filed by plaintiffs David T. Bowden and Judy Bowden of Polk County, GA on March... Read more »

The diabetes drug Actos has been named in several thousand product liability lawsuits across the United States. Accordingly, the cases have been consolidated pursuant to the rules of multidistrict litigation (MDL) – a process which funnels near-identical civil lawsuits into a single litigation tract for purposes of eliminating duplicative routine... 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 »

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 »

Twelve plaintiffs have filed lawsuits against Takeda Pharmaceuticals, claiming the drug caused their spouse or themselves to develop bladder cancer. Each Actos lawsuit will be added to the ongoing multidistrict litigation in the Western District of Louisiana. Actos is an oral diabetes medication used to control blood sugar levels in... 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 California resident is the most recent complainant in the ongoing federal court battle against Fresenius Medical Care (FMC), the world’s largest dialysis services and products company. Mr. Ronnie Miller, the Plaintiff, is the anticipated Administrator of the estate of Lula Brown, who died of sudden cardiac arrest in December,... Read more »