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Sort by relevance 16,386 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Hoping for a Hassle-Free Hip Implant a Roll of the Dice
Mar-7-17 Washington, DC: Much has been written in recent years about hip implant replacement failure and the perfect storm borne from an aging population (the leading edge of Baby Boomers are entering their retirement years), and a medical device manufacturing industry rushing new designs to market bereft of adequate real-world testing through a legal FDA looph... - Number of Pending Risperdal Lawsuits Grows to 18,500 Cases
Mar-7-17 New Brunswick, NJ: There are now 18,500 Risperdal lawsuits pending against Johnson & Johnson (J & J) and its subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals in the US and Canada, according to Johnson & Johnson's most recent annual report. J & J's latest annual report for the fiscal year ended Jan 1, 2017, which the company filed on Feb. 27, stated... - $12.5M Settlement Approved in Caldera Trans Vaginal Mesh Injury Litigation
Santa Clara, CA: A proposed $12.5 million settlement has been approved by a California federal judge, resolving litigation involving Caldera Medical’s transvaginal mesh (TVM) implant. Thousands of insurance claims were filed against Caldera alleging the TVM caused injuries to some 2,700 women. According to the terms of the settlement, in whi... - Revenues Drop While Lawsuits Rise over Benicar for Daiichi Sankyo
Mar-6-17 Parsippany, NJ: This could evolve to a compelling year for Japanese-based pharmaceutical giant Daiichi Sankyo following the expiry of its patent exclusivity for Benicar last year and a corresponding drop in revenue for a product characterized as its global mainstay. As generics for olmesartan (Benicar) continue to gain market share in 2017, coupled with a... - Wells Fargo Urges Judge to Refuse to Certify Hundreds of Employees in Class Action
Mar-6-17 Los Angeles, CA: Wells Fargo on Monday urged a California federal judge to refuse to certify a class of more than 600 home consultants who claim in a California Labor lawsuit that the bank failed to pay them for missed meal breaks. In the class action Nicole Torres et al. v. Wells Fargo Bank NA, Case No. 5:15-cv-02225, US District Court for the C... - Hotel Housekeepers Denied California Overtime File Lawsuit
Mar-6-17 Oakland, CA: For some California housekeepers who celebrated last September the bill that granted permanent California overtime protection for domestic workers, the law doesn’t apply to them – but it should. An East Oakland hotel owner, for instance, refused to pay overtime to six housekeepers: consequently employees, a legal advocacy firm... - Ohio Medical Malpractice Legal News and Lawsuit Information
Ohio medical malpractice claims are made against doctors or other healthcare professionals or organizations whose standard of care fails to meet an acceptable level. When the standard of care falls and a patient suffers harm as a result, an Ohio medical malpractice lawsuit may be filed against the doctor, health care provider, or institution whose actio... - Fighting Back Against the High Cost of Insulin
Mar-5-17 Seattle, WA It’s almost a century since two Canadian researchers discovered insulin could save the lives of diabetics . They believed that no one should profit from their remarkable discovery and sold the patent to the University of Toronto for $1. Changes to the production of insulin and expiring patents have changed all that. Today, insulin is... - Abilify Makes Headlines
Mar-4-17 Miami Beach, FL: A former arms dealer who made the news ten years ago and again last year when the film “War Dogs” was released is making headlines again, this time claiming that Abilify caused his compulsive behaviors. Efraim Diveroli filed an Abilify lawsuit against Bristol-Myers alleging its top-selling antipsychotic drug “cause... - Potential for Permanent Taxotere Hair Loss Not Widely Promoted
Mar-4-17 New Orleans, LA: As important as it is to be aware of any, and all side effects associated with a drug such as Taxotere, patients in need of the chemotherapy drug are already coming from a position of significant physical and emotional challenge: the fallout from a cancer diagnosis. And while most cancer patients are aware that hair loss is a common byprod... - Auto Manufacturers Claim to be Takata Airbag Victims
Mar-3-17 Miami, FL: The $1 Billion settlement in association with Takata airbag injuries (including at least 11 deaths which have been documented in the US), appears to be setting up a showdown between plaintiffs and automotive manufacturers caught up in a wave of airbag lawsuits involving the defective airbags. The airbags in question have been found to bec... - Doctor from Dallas Collects $11.4 million for Blowing the Whistle on Healthcare Fraud
Mar-3-17 Dallas, TX A Dallas doctor decided in 2009 to blow the whistle on a physician over a billing scam that was costing the healthcare system and American taxpayers millions and millions of dollars. Six years later, after a long investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) , Dr. Bijan Oughatiyan’s former employer, IPC Healthcare Inc., was ord... - Granuflo Bellwether Case Fails to Prove Fault
Mar-3-17 Santa Clara, CA: The first bellwether Fresenius trial for people who opted out of the earlier $250 million dollar settlement has failed to make its case, with the jury finding in favor of Fresenius Medical Care. The federal jury in Massachusetts delivered their verdict after deliberating for a day. They found that the plaintiff could not establish... - Preliminary Settlement Reached in Hardee’s Hepatitis A Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A proposed settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit brought by consumers who ate at certain Hardee’s restaurants located in South Carolina and who allege they were exposed to Hepatitis A by infected employees at those restaurants. The settlement affects all persons who consumed food or drink between September... - Defective Hip Implants: Newer Isn’t Always Better
Mar-1-17 Washington, DC: It’s little wonder, given the aging of the largest single segment of the American population, that medical device manufacturers continue to jockey for additional market share while attempting to protect their existing slice of the pie. To that end, plaintiffs in hip replacement failure lawsuits assert that manufacturers knowingly... - First Physiomesh Hernia Mesh Lawsuit Slated for Trial – and More Mesh Complications
Mar-1-17 San Diego, CA: Just over a year from now the first Ethicon surgical abdominal mesh lawsuit is slated for trial. According to a recent study published in JAMA, there could be many more reports of hernia complications—and abdominal mesh lawsuits—before Ethicon’s Physiomesh trial. Hernia Mesh Lawsuit Illinois resident Matthew Huf... - Plaintiffs Looking for a Slam Dunk in First Xarelto Bellwether Trial This Month
Mar-1-17 New Orleans, LA: It could be mere co-incidence, but on the eve of the National Basketball Association (NBA) All Star Game that served to delay Xarelto bellwether trials by a month, the manufacturers of Xarelto chose to highlight an aging NBA all-star player who expounds upon the virtues of rivaroxaban (Xarelto) and professes to use it himself. As such, a v... - Takata Agrees to Settle Defective Airbags MDL for $1B
Santa Clara, CA: Takata Corporation has agreed to pay $1 billion to settle multi-district litigation alleging the airbag manufacturer was aware of the fatal defect with its airbags but sold them anyway. At least 11 deaths have been linked to the airbags, which can explode due to a design defect. According to the proposed settlement terms Takata will... - New Report Shows 10 Banks Account for 67 Percent of Overdraft Fee Revenue
Feb-28-17 Boston, MA: A recent report revealed that out of more than 600 banks, 10 of those banks accounted for a huge percentage of all reported bank overdraft fees revenue collected through the first three quarters of 2016. According to a December 2016 consumer protection report published by the US Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG), 626 large bank... - Canadian Transvaginal Mesh Class Action
Feb-28-17 Toronto, ONT: Boston Scientific is the first of several transvaginal mesh manufacturers to face a certified contested action concerning transvaginal meshes in Canada. The lawsuit alleges that nine different devices made by Boston Scientific were negligently designed and the company failed to warn women of potential risks, according to Alex Robinson,...