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 »

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 »

Earlier in October, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) issued a consolidation order for Taxotere lawsuits filed in federal courts around the country. The claims will now proceed in a multidistrict litigation (MDL) against defendant Sanofi-Aventis. The ruling affects at least 33 cases that had been pending in 16 different U.S.... Read more »

Recent large scale epidemiological and retrospective studies have demonstrated links between the use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) and an increased risk of renal failure, myocardial infarction and dementia. On top of this, medical experts say that up to 70 percent of patients that take PPIs for treatment of heartburn... Read more »

John A. Purvis of Mississippi has filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the estate of Betty Jo Purvis. The lawsuit lists Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. as the defendant. Mr. Purvis added his short form complaint to the Granuflo multidistrict litigation (MDL) No. 2428 on September 23, 2015,... Read more »

A mother from Marion County, Illinois, has filed a Zofran heart defect lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK), the manufacturer of Zofran, the anti-emetic also known as ondansetron. The Plaintiff is the mother and natural guardian of her son, who the suit claims was born with a ventricular septal defect as a... Read more »

Federal regulations are currently in effect to ensure adverse events associated with prescription drugs are reported promptly to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). However, a new analysis of adverse event reporting has discovered some drug manufacturers may be neglecting those federal guidelines, which could be putting the lives... Read more »

An Alabama mother has filed a Zofran lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline on behalf of her daughter. She claims the pharmaceutical giant engaged in false and misleading marketing of the drug, which caused her and her physician to believe it was safe for use by a pregnant woman. The mother was prescribed... Read more »

Some consumer health advocates are staunchly opposed to a new bill that was unanimously approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee on May 21, 2015. H.R. 6 is the 21st Century Cures Act that is being touted by its proponents as being a bipartisan reform package to facilitate medical... Read more »

GlaxoSmithKline has filed a motion with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to consolidate all federal Zofran lawsuits for coordinated pretrial proceedings. As the number of product liability lawsuits filed on behalf of children born with heart defects, cleft palate and other congenital defects allegedly caused by exposure... Read more »