A plaintiff who suffered from more than one pulmonary embolism filed a Yaz lawsuit in a federal court in Texas in late December. According to The Southeast Texas Record, the…
In 2012, C.R. Bard faced its first transvaginal mesh lawsuit. The trial took place in a California court, and resulted in the jury deciding to award the plaintiff $5.5 million….
Members of the Scottish Parliament’s petition committee recently received evidence from an American lawyer, which included the comparison of transvaginal mesh devices to asbestos. The BBC quoted the lawyer as…
Pretrial proceedings are going smoothly in the testosterone multidistrict litigation (MDL) that is being held in an Illinois federal court. The testosterone MDL is scheduled to meet three times this…
In the United Kingdom, the Department of Health and the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have been collaborating on a safety review of transvaginal mesh. Their collaborative effort…
The lives of twelve families have been permanently impacted by Lexapro, an antidepressant drug. These 12 families took their cases to court by filing individual Lexapro birth defects lawsuits targeting…
The federal judge who is overseeing the pretrial proceedings in the 7 transvaginal mesh multidistrict litigations (MDLs) urged the defendants in each of the MDLs to settle the tens of…
Health Canada, the Canadian equivalent of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), issued an announcement in early May 2014 with new information on transvaginal mesh. Their announcement pertained specifically…
C.R. Bard, a manufacturer of medical devices used to treat pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI), recently settled a vaginal mesh lawsuit. Selected as a bellwether case,…
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, the arm of Johnson & Johnson behind the anti-seizure drug Topamax, is the target of over 100 lawsuits in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. The pharmaceutical company…