The start of 2014 has seen some very significant developments in the national Biomet metal-on-metal hip implant litigation. Perhaps the most significant development though is Biomet’s offering, and the court’s acceptance, of a settlement for claimants who have undergone revision surgeries. On February 3, 2014, Judge Miller entered an order […]
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The Biomet MDL (multidistrict litigation) was established for the organization and litigation of individual personal injury lawsuits against Biomet in the fall of 2012. In February of this year, the MDL contained 132 individual lawsuits. The count now stands upwards of 180 individual lawsuits, and it is still growing every […]
A Florida compounding pharmacy will recall its sterile drug products because the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fears they may be contaminated. The latest recall covers 91 batches of sterile product made at Balanced Solutions Compounding Pharmacy of Lake Mary, a division of Axium Healthcare Pharmacy Inc. According to a […]
You might not realize that K-Y Jelly is a medical device but it is and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is not happy about claims made by Johnson & Johnson concerning the personal lubricant. As a result McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a subsidiary of J&J, has recalled 2.3 million […]
The good news is that major retailer, Walmart, will stop the sale of baby products with cancer-causing flame retardant chemicals. The bad news, it will only be done in California. The action follows a report issued by the California-based nonprofit Center for Environmental Health (CEH). It found Walmart and other […]
It took the death of five infants but major U.S. stores have finally recalled a popular baby recliner more than two years after infant deaths and injuries were first reported. Buy Buy Baby and Toys R Us are taking 150,000 Nap Nanny recliners off store shelves, reports CNN. The federal […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are coordinating a multi state investigation of the source of the fungal meningitis outbreak that has caused five deaths. These patients, along with thousands of others, had received an epidural steroid injection, preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate […]
Cal Warriner of the Mass Torts Unit of Searcy Denney will be speaking this week at the Plaintiff Forum on Pharmaceutical Litigation: Transvaginal Mesh, Actos and Orthopedic Devices. The conference will be held on Friday of this week (October 5, 2012) at Le Méridien in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Cal will be […]
Last month, Searcy Denney filed a lawsuit on behalf of a North Port hip implant and his wife against DePuy Orthopedics and Johnson & Johnson. This Southwest Florida resident was originally implanted with a DePuy ASR metal-on-metal hip implant by Dr. Howard Saslow at Fawcett Memorial Hospital in Port Charlotte, […]
On July 4, 2012, Stryker posted on its website a national recall of its Rejuvenate and ADM hip implant systems. It’s obvious that Stryker has received far too many reports of shockingly premature failures of its hip implant. The Rejuvenate has only been on the market since 2009 so enough […]
