The first hearing for the newly-created Pradaxa MDL has been scheduled for October 3, 2012, at 1:30 PM at the United States Courthouse in East St. Louis, Illinois. On August 8, 2012, the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation (JPML) granted the plaintiffs’ request for establishment of an MDL and assigned […]
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Johnson & Johnson’s new CEO, Alyx Gorsky, will not be able to avoid having his deposition taken in preparation for the upcoming transvaginal mesh lawsuits pending before a New Jersey Superior Court. The ruling came down July 19, 2012, one day before a landmark ruling in another mesh case in […]
Although the following was a parody published in the New York Bar Journal, it rings amazingly true for the thought process used in decisions to send products into the market place: “Remember when some bad tires exploded and killed a few people? Lawsuits uncovered the defect. Nobody would have known […]
A panel of federal judges will meet on Thursday, July 26, to determine whether it will be necessary to create a sixth multidistrict litigation (MDL), expanding the litigation from the current five vaginal mesh MDLs. Four MDLs are consolidated in Charleston, West Virginia in the U.S. District Court for the […]
Coloplast Corp. has asked the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (“JPML”) to consolidate and transfer all federal cases involving its pelvic mesh device to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia for coordinated pretrial proceeding (known as In re Coloplast Corp’s Pelvic Support System Product Liability […]
If a medical device such as a metal-on-metal (MoM) hip or synthetic vaginal mesh go bad in a patient, the current system has no way of identifying and tracking that medical device. There is no national registry in the U.S. as there is in Britain and Australia, so the recipient of the device gone […]
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 […]
The Honorable Judge Joseph R. Goodwin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia held a status conference Thursday, May 24, 2012, in the U.S. Courthouse in Charleston, West Virginia to coordinate the discovery process for the hundreds of consolidated cases filed by women around the […]
Pradaxa, an anti-coagulant drug marketed by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, enjoyed an unusually smooth (and quick) ride towards FDA approval. Rather than spending months pouring over clinical studies and safety data, FDA employees instead approved Pradaxa based primarily on a single study and did so in just six months. Below are […]
So far this week, our firm has filed three new DePuy ASR hip implant cases in the MDL proceedings pending before Judge David A. Katz of the United States District Court in the Northern District of Ohio. These multi-district litigation proceedings related to DePuy’s recalled ASR hip implants are also […]
