U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel, who is currently overseeing Lipitor multidistrict litigation in South Carolina, has announced the first bellwether trial will begin in October 2015. Discovery in the Lipitor diabetes lawsuits is currently underway. A bellwether trial is used to help both sides gauge the jury reaction to evidence... Read more »

An Actos class action lawsuit filed in Louisiana will remain separate from coordinated proceedings currently underway in that court, a judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Doherty recently issued an order stating the case filed by a health care fund will remain separate from hundreds of claims currently pending in... Read more »

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and Greenstone LLC have been named defendants in a Lipitor diabetes lawsuit brought by Rosemary and Drew Reynolds. The Florida couple’s case was filed via short form complaint to be consolidated in the Lipitor Products Liability Litigation underway in Charleston, South Carolina. The Lipitor MDL 2502 has... Read more »

Low T drug lawsuits alleging life-altering complications from Androgel, Testim and other testosterone supplements continue to mount in courtrooms across the nation. Plaintiffs claim they were inadequately warned about the risk of cardiovascular injury, stroke, heart attack and other severe health complications by the manufacturers of testosterone replacement products. A... Read more »

Pharmaceutical giant Bayer has already resolved more than 17,000 Yaz and Yasmin lawsuits involving venous clot injuries, pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis, but hundreds more are still pending in multidistrict litigation No. 2100. While the MDL is still marshalling discovery common to all cases, the presiding Judge, Honorable David... Read more »

The judge in one of the early Actos bladder cancer trials has upheld a record-breaking $9 billion punitive damages award against Takeda Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly, who recently attempted to have the Actos lawsuit award thrown out. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Doherty ruled that the jurors who assigned the award... Read more »

According to the details of a quarterly report filed by drug giant AstraZeneca, it has agreed to settle 84 cases with plaintiffs having filed Byetta lawsuits alleging serious injury. The drug maker did not immediately reveal the amount of each settlement, and its report also reveals at least 409 other... Read more »

Judge Cynthia Rufe, who is overseeing MDL No. 2342 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, recently remanded a Zoloft lawsuit back to Missouri state court, reports Harris Martin. The MDL judge found that the 25 claimant families did not fraudulently misjoin their complaints into a... Read more »

Dara Goldstein, individually and as successor in interest of the estate of Samuel Goldstein, has submitted a short form complaint for monetary damages against Merck, Sharpe & Dohme. The plaintiff claims that her now deceased husband developed pancreatic cancer and subsequently died as a direct result of taking the diabetes... Read more »

In a recent, and ongoing, federal lawsuit involving the diabetes drug Actos, manufacturer Takeda is now facing significant sanctions from U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca F. Doherty after a finding that it engaged in intentional and unlawful destruction of evidence tending to show it had knowledge of the dangers of... Read more »