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$3.6M Verdict Affirmed In Bard IVC Filter Case
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a $3.6 million jury award over C.R. Bard's IVC filter, after finding that state-law duty to warn was not preempted by federal edicts.…
J&J Asks For Court-Approved Experts In Talc Cases
On August 12, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) sent a letter asking U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson, overseeing the talcum powder lawsuits, to appoint court-approved experts to…
Bayer Agrees To Pay $1.6B To Settle Essure Lawsuits
On August 20, Bayer officials disclosed in a press release that the company had reached an agreement with plaintiff law firms to pay approximately $1.6 billion to settle nearly 39,000 …
Study Fuels Link of IVC Filter to Venous Thromboembolism
The safety and effectiveness of inferior vena cava (IVC) filters were questioned once again when a new study suggested that IVC filters might increase the risk of venous thromboembolism when used in patients…
Ethicon's Pelvic Mesh victory turns sour
A small victory came in for a pelvic mesh litigation case for an Ohio woman. The case had proceeded to the damages hearing post losing out to the defendant Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon, last month. Judge Michael Erdos reasoned that there was…
J&J's Ethicon faces Sixth Trial for its Mesh Products
J&J's Ethicon faces another pelvic mesh defective product case for two of its mesh products: TVT-SECUR and TVT (tension-free vaginal tape), at the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. This is the sixth trial faced by the manufacturer so far.…
Endo settling its Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuits
Another Transvaginal Mesh manufacturer, Endo International plc (Endo), announced this August that it was setting aside an additional $775 million rounding off to a near total of $2.6 billion to resolve the remaining 22,000 Transvaginal Mesh…
Ethicon's Physiomesh Lawsuits on an Upswing
Ethicon's Physiomesh Flexible Composite Mesh lawsuits are moving ahead at a structured pace; this comes after the centralization of all the federally-filed Physiomesh lawsuits in the Northern District of…
Zantac-Cancer Link To Be Considered For Bellwether Selection
The U.S. District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg, presiding over all Zantac litigation, indicated that the court would weigh on the admissibility of expert witness testimony…
Court Stands by the 2015 Risperdal Verdict Amount
In early 2015, a Philadelphia jury had passed a verdict of $2.5 million in damages to be paid to a Risperdal plaintiff which was also the first verdict for the antipsychotic drug Risperdal's alleged side effect of abnormal breast growth in males…