While the mainstream media occasionally reports on the multi-million dollar jury awards against pelvic mesh makers Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific, one of the lesser known manufacturers will soon face (a wave of) injured women in court. Cook Medical of Bloomington, Indiana is a privately…
FDA officials warned yesterday about medical scopes inserted down a patient’s throat that may be spreading serious bacterial infections. The scopes are called duodenoscopes and they are used to diagnose and treat diseases of the liver, bile ducts, and pancreas. Apparently, the manufacturer’s sterilization guidelines…
The Biomet Magnum metal on metal hip implant settlement announced last year is proceeding forward. All of the participation percentage requirements have been met. The original deadline for individual settlements to be completed or for cases to go forward in litigation was December 31, 2014, That…
Registration for the $1 billion dollar plus settlement of the Stryker Rejuvenate hip implant lawsuits has been extended until Friday December 19, 2014. This settlement pays a base amount of $300,000 per hip for those Stryker hip implant patients who had revision surgeries before November…
Over 70,000 lawsuits are pending in the U.S. federal courts against seven different manufacturers of transvaginal mesh implants. Ethicon, Boston Scientific, C.R. Bard, American Medical Systems (AMS), Coloplast, Cook, and Neomedic all marketed these products to OB physicians for implantation in women who had pelvic…
This week a settlement was announced in the thousands of lawsuits pending against Stryker over the recalled Rejuvenate and AGB ll hip implants. These Stryker implants were recalled in 2012 as a result of a high failure rate due to metallosis. The Stryker implants are…
Finally, information is available about the millions of dollars paid by drug companies to doctors to influence them to prescribe specific drugs. It has been known for years that the drug manufacturers have been spending money to influence doctors to prescribe drugs. But it has…
The Biomet metal on metal hip implant settlement that was announced in January 2014 is expected to pay out more than $100 million in compensation. Biomet hip implant patients who had to undergo revision surgery to have their metal implant removed are eligible for…
A Louisiana jury, this morning, found Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company and Takeda Pharmaceuticals liable for compensatory and punitive damages for deceiving doctors and diabetes patients about the risk that Actos can cause bladder cancer. During a 12 week trial in the U.S. District Court in Lafayette,…
DePuy ASR Deadline The last date to enroll in the 2.5 billion dollar DePuy ASR hip settlement is April 1, 2014. The Depuy ASR metal on metal hip was recalled in 2010 and there are about 8 thousand eligible cases. An ASR hip implant patient has…
