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Bard Proposes Ventralight ST & Ventralex Claims For Initial Trials
C.R. Bard and its Davol, Inc. subsidiary have proposed that from over a thousand lawsuits faced by them, claims related to Bard Ventralight ST and Bard Ventralex mesh be the first to go before a jury later this year.
The company…
Talc Claimants Seek To Toss J&J's Chapter 11 Motion
The official committee of talc claimants asked a New Jersey bankruptcy judge to dismiss Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) Chapter 11 case by stating that the proceeding is…
Talcum Powder
Johnson and Johnson's widely used and globally accepted Talc is facing allegations of causing Ovarian cancer when used perennially. Consecutively, six verdicts in favor of the plaintiffs have made the situation positive for the other filed…
Opioid Crisis: Now under JPML Docket
The JPML is reviewing the motion filed with them to transfer and consolidate the "National Prescription Opiate Litigation" which was long due to handling the Opioid crisis sweeping across the nation. Opiate drug makers are also facing lawsuits by…
Amendment to pre-order trial for Fluoroquinolone Products
The pretrial schedule for the first bellwether trials involving Cipro and Avelox was amended to extend the non-expert fact discovery deadline until January 26, 2018. Fluoroquinolone or…
Plaintiffs' Request To Reinstate 13 Risperdal Cases
Plaintiffs' request to reinstate 13 Risperdal gynecomastia cases was denied by a Pennsylvania state appeals panel agreeing with the trial judge that the claims were preempted by Michigan's drug shield law…
Abilify Defense Requests access to Plaintiffs' Computers
In an attempt to collect more evidence of undocumented online gambling, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Otsuka Pharmaceuticals defense attorneys have put forth a request before all the federal courts presiding over the…
FDA pressurized to issue a Benicar recall
Public Citizen, a prominent consumer watchdog group, filed a recall petition for the FDA to issue a Benicar recall and ban all the other olmesartan drugs, such as Benicar HCT,…
Taxotere: – MDL No. 2740
Taxotere: – MDL No. 2740; in Re: Taxotere (Docetaxel) Products Liability Litigation, created on October 4, 2016, under Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt in the Eastern District of Louisiana; the bellwether trials will begin on January 28, 2019; April 8,…
Judge Polster Overseeing the ‘Opioid Litigation’ Orders DEA to Divulge Data
U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster, overseeing the Opioid multidistrict litigation (MDL) No: 2804, released a court order on May 8, requiring the Drug Enforcement…