A recent Zostavax neuropathy lawsuit claims side effects of the shingles vaccine caused a Kentucky woman to develop painful and irreparable nerve damage. Rita Bishop file the complaint late this past month in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She alleges that Merck & Co. sold a dangerously defective shingles vaccine and deliberately failed to warn […]
Global medical tech company LivaNova PLC agreed to pay $225 million to settle lawsuits over heart surgery infections caused by 3T heater-cooler systems. On March 29, LivaNova released a statement declaring the company agreed to resolve approximately 75% of pending 3T heater-cooler system lawsuits filed across the U.S. over the past few years. However, Livanova’s […]
A San Francisco jury returned with an $80 million Roundup verdict for a California man who says Monsanto’s popular weed killer caused cancer and that the company actively concealed the risks from the public. Earlier this month, the same six-person jury sided with plaintiff Edwin Hardeman on his claims that Roundup was a “substantial” factor […]
A San Francisco jury in the first federal Roundup lymphoma trial ruled unanimously Tuesday that Monsanto’s popular weed killer caused a man to develop cancer. The six-person jury in the San Francisco District Court will now move on to the trial’s second phase to determine if Monsanto deliberately withheld safety risks from the public to […]
A new Zostavax lawsuit claims that a Pennsylvania man developed heart and respiratory failure, as well as other fatal complications shortly after receiving the defective shingles vaccine. Doris Jean Johnson filed the Zostavax lawsuit against Merck & Co. on March 6 in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She is presenting claims on behalf of herself […]
Recent court filings indicate that lawyers expect the number of hernia mesh lawsuits in the federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) against C.R. Bard to reach 3,000 by the end of 2019. Currently, there are only a few hundred hernia mesh lawsuits in the MDL. However, they all involve strikingly similar allegations that Bard concealed significant defects […]
The first federal “bellwether” trial over Monsanto hiding cancer risks associated with Roundup is well under way in San Francisco. The jury heard the Roundup plaintiff testify this week that he experienced frequent exposure to the glyphosate-based weed killer before his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) diagnosis. Furthermore, an expert witness indicated that the herbicide has substantial […]
As more patients learn that many of the products surgeons have been using for hernia repair surgery during the past decade are dangerously defective, hernia mesh lawsuits against Ethicon, Atrium, C.R. Bard and other manufacturers continue to flood the nation’s courts. Recent court filings indicate that there are now more than 3,100 hernia mesh lawsuits […]
The first federal Roundup trial is finally going to California court with jury selection beginning Monday over claims that Monsanto hid its popular weed killer’s significant cancer risks to protect profits at the cost of human life. The federal Roundup trial will proceed in an unconventional format. The District Judge presiding over the entirely of […]
Ethicon hernia mesh lawsuit consolidation is under consideration by the New Jersey Supreme Court over the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary’s defective Proceed and Prolene surgical mesh products causing irreparable harm to determine if one judge will preside over the state’s cases for pretrial proceedings. The Acting Administrative of the Courts, Glenn A. Grant, indicates that […]
