Bayer is opposing a request by plaintiffs in nine Mirena IIH lawsuits to establish a new federal multidistrict litigation (MDL), which would centralize all IIH complaints in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. The plaintiffs, who filed the motion with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict... Read more »

Minnesota-based medical device company Medtronic has agreed to pay $9.9 million to the federal government in order to settle allegations arising under the False Claims Act – a federal statute designed to incentivize integrity and undermine the efforts of those fraudulently submitting invoices for payment under government contracts. The False... Read more »

The ongoing litigation involving Stryker hip replacements expanded significantly late last month as five new lawsuits were filed in New Jersey state court. The plaintiffs are asserting that Stryker failed to warn patients that a certain coating applied to the outside of the device could lead to severe metal toxicity in... Read more »

With 2,000 Mirena IUD lawsuits pending across the country, plaintiffs are anxiously awaiting their day in court against Bayer Healthcare. Some sixteen cases have been given the green light for early trial dates. These so-called bellwether trials, chosen from 800 cases pending in New Jersey state court, will help gauge how juries... Read more »

A DePuy hip settlement first announced in November 2013 is moving forward with the full expectation that pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson will ultimately pay out billions of dollars to resolve lawsuits over its subsidiary DePuy’s ASR implants. Until last month’s settlement alert announcing DePuy will not exercise its right... Read more »

Court records show that last month five new product liability complaints were filed in Bergen County Superior Court, alleging complications with the Stryker Accolade TMZF hip stem and LFIT anatomic V40 femoral head. The plaintiffs argue that the hip replacement components suffer design defects and are defectively manufactured, causing fretting... Read more »

Research recently presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has shed new light on the reasons behind a large proportion of surgical revision procedures in patients who have previously undergone total knee replacements. The study was undertaken in an effort to explain the increase in... Read more »

The manufacturers of a replacement hip that has been the subject of thousands of lawsuits can add one more case, a Pinnacle hip revision surgery lawsuit, to defend. On February 26, 2014, a husband and wife from West Virginia, filed a complaint in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County,... Read more »

The Mirena IUD, manufactured by Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, is already the topic of heated litigation throughout the United States. Women allege that the intrauterine system is prone to spontaneous migration, putting them at risk for uterine perforation, internal adhesions, infections and other debilitating injuries. Now, a new complication associated with... Read more »

Research recently presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has shed new light on the reasons behind the numbers of surgical revision procedures in patients who have previously undergone total knee replacements. The study was undertaken in an effort to explain the increase in revision... Read more »