As of July 2016, there are over 700 Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) filter lawsuits pending in a federal court in Arizona. The multidistrict litigation (MDL) is IN RE: Bard IVC…
Carey Danis LoweAugust 29, 2016
In late October 2015, a federal judge denied a request made by Boston Scientific, a manufacturer of vaginal mesh devices. The company sought to move 62 transvaginal mesh lawsuits, which…
Carey Danis LoweNovember 23, 2015
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) ordered to consolidate Zofran birth defect lawsuits in Massachusetts. Why did the JPML consolidate Zofran cases? An increasing number of families across the…
Carey Danis LoweNovember 9, 2015
More and more GMO corn seed lawsuits are being filed in the multidistrict litigation (MDL) in Kansas. In one month, the lawsuits targeting the biotech giant, Syngenta, climbed from 300…
Carey Danis LoweJune 19, 2015
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…
Carey Danis LoweMay 7, 2015
When Judge Goodwin said he was going to “kick it into high gear”, he really meant it. According to a pretrial order (PTO) filed in early April 2015, Judge Joseph…
Carey Danis LoweMay 7, 2015
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…
Carey Danis LoweMarch 18, 2015
Settling Yaz and Yasmin lawsuits in the Yaz and Yasmin multidistrict litigation (MDL) is a slow process, a fact recently expressed by the federal judge managing the MDL. It appears…
Carey Danis LoweMarch 17, 2015
U.S. corn growers are taking a stand against biotechnology companies by filing GMO corn lawsuits. There are approximately 800 pending lawsuits from 20 states. In late January, a judicial panel…
Carey Danis LoweMarch 11, 2015