As worrisome concerns increase about consuming and using genetically modified organisms (GMOs), farmers are turning to non-GMO seeds. There are several reasons for this transformation, most of which directly hit…
The Langhart parents were expecting their daughter, Erika, to fly home for Thanksgiving. Instead, they got a call summoning them to a Virginia hospital, because their daughter had suffered multiple…
The first bellwether trial to be heard in the Ethicon multidistrict litigation (MDL) in West Virginia will begin on February 10, 2014. According to a court document filed in mid-December,…
Research demonstrates a strong connection between the development of bladder cancer and the use of Actos, a drug prescribed to patients with diabetes. Actos is known generically as pioglitazone, and…
After a car accident, a victim will face numerous costs - and a large majority of those costs may be out of pocket, depending on insurance coverage. Even if the…
Testosterone therapy promises men more energy and heightened libidos, but some patients say those promises were accompanied by heart attacks and pulmonary embolisms. Testosterone has been approved for men impacted…
Feeling that more progress must be made in the C.R. Bard transvaginal mesh multidistrict litigation (MDL), the presiding judge decided to begin reviewing similar cases in bulk sets, what the…
C.R. Bard offered a $21 million transvaginal mesh lawsuit settlement that could impact around 500 cases. The plaintiffs who filed these lawsuits against C.R. Bard did so after sustaining serious…
Thousands of transvaginal mesh lawsuits targeting C.R. Bard are currently pending in a federal court in West Virginia. In late December 2014, C.R. Bard submitted a request to postpone bellwether…
The latest from the West Virginia transvaginal mesh multidistrict litigations (MDLs) involves the case of Linda Rizzo, a plaintiff who removed her case from the C. R. Bard MDL in…