A California woman sues Boston Scientific Corp. after receiving a defective transvaginal mesh implant. The woman alleges serious damages associated with the medical device’s failure. Many women in California experience a condition called "pelvic organ prolapsed," which happens when the [...]
The U.S. pharmaceutical company Merck, Sharp & Dohme will pay $1 billion for endangering patients through mismarketing of the painkiller Vioxx Many individuals in California and around the country are harmed by pharmaceuticals every year. A pharmaceutical can harm a [...]
The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced that two men from the State of Idaho were sentenced to prison for violating the asbestos work practice standards of the Clean Air Act. The criminal case was investigated by the U.S. Environmental [...]
There are three product liability theories under California law: manufacturing defect, product design defect and failure to warn. One recent failure to warn and negligence case was brought against Stryker Corp. and Howmedica Osteonics Corp. The lawsuit was brought by [...]
The small town of Libby, Montana, is one of the most contaminated asbestos sites in the world, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The town is set in a picturesque part of Montana and was the site of [...]
There are often many potential liable parties in a mesothelioma case. In addition to the manufacturers of asbestos-containing products, often the sellers, shippers and installers of asbestos products can be held liable for failing to warn individuals of the dangers [...]
A Pennsylvania man's widow recently won $159,000 in an asbestos product liability lawsuit against Sears Roebuck & Co. The man died in 2009, one month after he was diagnosed with mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is an aggressive form of cancer primarily caused [...]
Asbestos is a dangerous mineral that was used in thousands of products for the past 100 years. Asbestos exposure in the workplace has been linked to a type of cancer called mesothelioma, which often goes undetected until it is too [...]
A Utah woman recently brought a mesothelioma lawsuit against the manufacturer of a joint compound product that she and her husband used to build two homes in the 1970s. Joint compounds, also known as drywall compounds, are plaster-like substances used [...]
A California court recently held that a mesothelioma-based loss of consortium claim could be brought on the basis of pre-marital asbestos exposure. Loss of consortium claims are frequently brought by the spouses of mesothelioma sufferers against the manufacturers of asbestos [...]
Many Navy servicemen and women have developed a serious type of cancer called mesothelioma due to asbestos exposure on ships. The U.S. Navy required the use of asbestos in many of its ships until the late 1960s despite knowing that [...]
Many individuals who worked in California shipyards have developed mesothelioma due to their exposure to asbestos products. The U.S. Navy mandated the use of asbestos products in its ships and shipyards until the 1980s because asbestos can make materials heat-resistant. [...]
Many people in California and around the United States are suffering from a deadly form of cancer called mesothelioma. The most common cause of mesothelioma is asbestos exposure, and much of the asbestos exposure occurs at people's job sites. Many [...]
Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer that is almost always caused by exposure to asbestos. Asbestos is a toxic mineral that was used in a variety of commercial products and building supplies as a strengthener and flame repellent. Asbestos [...]
Pericardial mesothelioma is a rare type of cancer often caused by asbestos exposure. Asbestos is a toxic mineral that has been used in thousands of products for hundreds of years. Many people in construction, remodeling and homebuilding trades were exposed [...]
The New York Islanders hockey team may be looking for a new stadium after workers from the team's old arena filed a lawsuit alleging that the stadium was filled with asbestos. Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral that was once [...]
Mesothelioma is a serious form of cancer most commonly caused by exposure to asbestos. Many California workers have been exposed to asbestos at their job sites and are entitled to compensation from employers that failed to adequately warn and protect [...]
Mesothelioma is a deadly form of cancer primarily linked to asbestos exposure. Mesothelioma is often fatal because it can go undetected for years and its vague symptoms easily mimic other diseases. The most common type of mesothelioma is pleural mesothelioma [...]
Medical researchers from some of Japan's top universities and hospitals recently published a study indicating that Japan may experience more than 66,000 mesothelioma deaths by the year 2050. Mesothelioma is an often fatal cancer primarily linked to asbestos exposure. Asbestos [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is warning homeowners that their vermiculite insulation might be contaminated with asbestos. Vermiculite insulation is used throughout the country and is described by the EPA as a "pebble-like, pour-in product and is usually gray-brown or [...]
Many skilled welders and machinists have developed a form of cancer called mesothelioma over the years. Welders and machinists often develop mesothelioma because many of the parts used in trains and commercial vehicles contained a toxic mineral called asbestos. Asbestos [...]
Mesothelioma is a serious type of cancer that develops years after a person is exposed to asbestos. Mesothelioma is often hard to detect because it usually has vague symptoms such as coughing and nausea. Often, the cancer is not detected [...]
An 86-year-old Los Angeles area construction worker was recently awarded $48 million in an asbestos product liability case. The man alleged that he was exposed to asbestos fibers as a bystander during his 30 years as a general construction contractor [...]
A former Navy serviceman's $32 million asbestos product liability jury award was recently reduced by a New York judge. The veteran alleged that he developed mesothelioma after he was exposed to a variety of asbestos-containing products, including replacement parts for [...]
March 3, 2015 - FDA issued an update to its 2014 Drug Safety Communication, requiring all manufacturers of testosterone products to revise their labels with warnings "about a possible increased risk of heart attacks and strokes..." The updated Safety Communication [...]
November 24, 2014 - The FDA issued a major update to its safety communication from April 17, 2014, warning against the use of laparoscopic power morcellators (LPMs) for hysterectomies and myomectomies "in the vast majority of women." FDA's decision to [...]
September 17, 2014 - An FDA advisory panel consisting of the Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee issued a recommendation regarding the intended use and the potential adverse cardiovascular effects [...]
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued new draft guidelines for the use and expected performance of hip replacement devices. According to the NICE's proposed guidance, such devices will be "recommended as treatment options... only if [...]
The recently published reports from the National Joint Registry for England and Wales (UK NJR) and the Australian National Joint Replacement Registry (NJRR) reveal increasing failure rates and other significant safety issues affecting all metal-on-metal hip replacements (MOMs). The increase [...]
A federal appeals court recently upheld a $21.06 million jury award in a pharmaceutical product liability case. The case was brought by a woman who suffered severe personal injuries after experiencing an allergic reaction to sulindac, a generic nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory [...]
On June 24, 2013, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision that further forecloses remedies for people injured by generic pharmaceutical drugs. In a five-to-four decision in a case titled Mutual Pharmaceutical v. Bartlett, 133 S. Ct. 2466 (U.S. [...]
A San Francisco jury recently awarded a family $97,000 after their 5-year-old daughter died after being given Children's Motrin, a popular child's cold medicine. The parents said that they bought Children's Motrin from a local Wal-Mart and gave it to [...]
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline posted declining third-quarter profits amid the European financial slowdown and tanking sales of its drug Avandia. Avandia, also known as rosiglitazone, is a diabetes drug that works as an insulin sensitizer. Sales of Avandia peaked around 2006, [...]
The federal investigation into a Massachusetts-based pharmacy has widened as more of its products have been found to be contaminated with bacteria. The New England Compounding Center (NECC) is the specialty pharmacy blamed for a national outbreak of fungal meningitis, [...]
The safety of the oral diabetes drug Actos has been increasingly questioned as research has linked the drug to bladder cancer. Pharmaceutical product liability litigation surrounding Actos jumped markedly in the past few years as more patients began developing bladder [...]
Medtronic Inc. faces several product liability lawsuits alleging defective and illegally marketed medical devices. Medtronic Inc. recently agreed to an $85 million settlement with shareholders based on claims that the medical device company's executives lied about the profitability of Medtronic's [...]
An internal study done by Johnson & Johnson estimates that the company's all-metal implants have a 37 percent five-year failure rate, according to court documents recently made public. This means that all-metal hip implants are more than seven times more [...]
There are three product liability theories under California law: manufacturing defect, product design defect and failure to warn. One recent failure to warn and negligence case was brought against Stryker Corp. and Howmedica Osteonics Corp. The lawsuit was brought by [...]
Female genital prolapse is a common problem that can occur for a variety of reasons. The collapse of the pelvic floor during childbirth is the most typical cause of genital prolapse, but forms of the condition can also occur after [...]
A federal appeals court recently found that a man who received a defective hip implant can move forward with his defective manufacturing-based state law claims. Hip implants are one of the most common types of medical devices sold. Unfortunately, hip [...]
Prescription drugmaker Barr Laboratories Inc. was recently sued by the parents of a California woman who died after taking an oral contraceptive. The parents' defective drug claim alleged that their daughter died after taking Kariva, a birth control pill. The [...]
The parents of a deceased patient failed to state a “failure to warn” claim against drugmakers that adequately warned a physician of potential drug side effects Many defective pharmaceuticals cases are filed in San Francisco and throughout California every year. [...]
A California woman who developed a severe jawbone disease after taking Zometa recently prevailed in a choice of law argument concerning punitive damages. Punitive damages are sometimes awarded in defective pharmaceuticals cases. Punitive damages are money awards typically intended to [...]
Federal safety regulators have launched an investigation into whether Fresenius Medical Care hid the deadly side effects associated with its dialysis solution called GranuFlo. Use of GranuFlo has been linked to a significant increase in heart attacks and deaths in [...]
A class action lawsuit was recently filed against Cochlear Limited, an Australian company that allegedly sold defective hearing aid implants. The father of a deaf girl recently filed a class action lawsuit against Australian medical device company Cochlear Limited. The [...]
Asbestos in public schools poses serious health risks to students. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that most of the country's public schools contain at least some asbestos-containing materials. Asbestos is used in a variety of materials, including insulation, [...]
Mesothelioma is an often fatal form of cancer that is most commonly linked to asbestos exposure in the workplace. Asbestos the term given to six types of minerals, three of which were mined across the world for their ability to [...]
An 85-year-old retired ship deckhand recently won a $1.45 million verdict against a ship owner in a mesothelioma lawsuit. The deckhand worked aboard the SS Seattle in 1966 for 67 days, during which he was exposed to asbestos fibers. The [...]
