Posts tagged class action

• Most DePuy ASR Lawsuits Must Be Filed Before August 2012

  Joe Saunders | May 18, 2012 4:57 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  DePuy ASR hip implant patients in most states who do not file lawsuits before August 23, 2012 may lose their rights to compensation or to file a lawsuit. Every state has a law called the...

• DePuy Unloads ASR Hip Implant Inventory After Problems Were Known

  Joe Saunders | March 22, 2012 11:05 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  In 2009 after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration raised questions about the safety of the DePuy ASR Hip Implants Johnson & Johnson decided to sell all the hip implants in its inventories...

• Pelvic Mesh Implant Lawsuits Move Forward in Courts

  Joe Saunders | February 08, 2012 9:28 PM | 2 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Products liability lawsuits against three different manufacturers of transvaginal surgical mesh devices were assigned to a single federal judge in a multidistrict litigation proceeding this...

• Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuits Move Forward

  Joe Saunders | January 29, 2012 10:55 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Thousands of women who have had surgical mesh implanted to treat pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence are suffering from serious complications that are very difficult or...

• Thousands of Actos Bladder Cancer Lawsuits Expected

  Joe Saunders | January 29, 2012 10:04 AM | 1 CommentPinellas, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  In anticipation of a wave of lawsuits, the federal courts have issued an order coordinating the Actos bladder cancer lawsuits before one judge in the United States District Court for the...

• Metal on Metal Hip Implant Lawsuits Include Biomet

  Joe Saunders | December 18, 2011 10:09 PM | 1 CommentSarasota, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  The wave of metal on metal hip implant lawsuits that have been filed now includes the Biomet Magnum hip replacement device. Legal cases that have been filed over the last few years have been...

• Actos Users at Risk for Bladder Cancer

  Joe Saunders | December 18, 2011 9:07 PM | 1 CommentPinellas, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The diabetes drug Actos has been associated with bladder cancer and the FDA has now required the manufacturer to provide warnings of this risk. Prior to 2011 Actos manufacturer Takeda...

• GlaxoSmithKline $3 Billion Legal Settlement

  Joe Saunders | November 06, 2011 12:00 PM | 2 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Pharmaceutical drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline will pay $3 Billion to settle for civil and criminal illegal marketing schemes that were the subject of a U.S. Government investigation. The...

• Metal Hip Implants Cause Chemical Chain Reaction

  Joe Saunders | October 01, 2011 10:10 AM | 5 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  It has been widely reported that metal on metal hip implants such as the DePuy ASR are failing at an alarmingly high rate. An article in today's New York Times newspaper provides a scientific...

• Public Citizen Petitions FDA to Recall Transvaginal Mesh

  Joe Saunders | August 28, 2011 3:33 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  Consumer advocacy group, Public Citizen, filed a Petition last Thursday, August 25, 2011, asking the FDA to order a recall of all non-absorbable surgical mesh products marketed for transvaginal...