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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…
Los Angeles Joins the Battle Against Opioid Epidemic
Los Angeles has now joined several others to fight the Opioid epidemic battle. Recently, a Los Angeles city attorney filed a lawsuit in the California district court against a group of…
Bard, Davol Support Centralization Provided all Polypropylene Mesh Products are Included
In April, a group of plaintiffs affected by C. R. Bard's hernia mesh products had filed a motion for centralization before the JPML, requesting all Bard polypropylene…
Federal Judge May Include Smith & Nephew Hip Replacement Lawsuits with Hip Resurfacing MDL
Federally-filed Smith & Nephew Birmingham Hip Replacement litigation is witnessing a steady growth in size with additional cases being filed by plaintiffs. As of April, there were more than 250 cases filed as a part of this…
Sarns TCM and TCM II Cooling & Heating Systems Recalled
The U.S. FDA announced a recall for Terumo’s Sarns TCM and TCM II Cooling and Heating Systems used for regulating patient body temperature during surgery. The FDA was prompted to take this decision after Terumo sent a letter to…