A pharmaceutical giant will go to the ends of the earth to find a way to appeal a case. However, in the Topamax birth defect lawsuit involving plaintiff, April Czimmer,…
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U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin has selected four bellwether cases in the Ethicon multidistrict litigation (MDL) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. The…
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A recent USA Today editorial piece published on March 24 takes the position that Johnson & Johnson and DePuy mismanaged the development and marketing efforts behind their DePuy ASR Hip…
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Transvaginal mesh lawsuits have been consolidated into the Ethicon multidistrict litigation (MDL) in West Virginia. In a court document filed in early December 2013, plaintiffs' legal counsel argued that Johnson…
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Women are filing lawsuits against Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, over their anti-epileptic medication Topamax. One such lawsuit is being heard in a Pennsylvania court, and involves…
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Levaquin, a drug manufactured by a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary – OrthoMcNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc. – is the topic of several lawsuits around the country that have since been consolidated into…
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Court convened on January 8, 2013 for a Status Conference for Levaquin lawsuits that have been consolidated into In Re: Levaquin Products Liability Litigation, the Multi-District Litigation (MDL) that is…
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In a federal court in West Virginia, five transvaginal mesh manufacturers, C. R. Bard, Boston Scientific Corp., American Medical Systems, Coloplast Corp., and Cook Medical, are purported to be in…
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A state case regarding the recalled DePuy ASR hip replacement system is scheduled to go to trial in January 2013 in Prince George's County, Maryland. If DePuy does not settle…
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The first trial of 1,800 regarding Johnson & Johnson's defective Gynecare Prolift vaginal mesh was heard in a New Jersey state court in Atlantic City last week. The trial, known…
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