In March 2015, a Pennsylvania jury awarded a Wisconsin family a $3 million award in a Topamax birth defects lawsuit. The suit, which the family filed in December 2011, alleged…
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Johnson & Johnson and Ethicon mishandled internal documents that were of great importance in the Ethicon multidistrict litigation (MDL) being heard in West Virginia. As a result, U.S. Magistrate Judge…
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The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) announced in a news release dated April 29, 2014 that it would put forth two orders relating to transvaginal mesh used to treat…
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Now a recalled device , the DePuy ASR hip replacement has significantly changed the lives of thousands of people around the world, and not in the way for which it…
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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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