Embattled healthcare products company Endo International has announced that it has shuttered its Astoria Women’s Health division. This move has come on the heels of the company’s failure to identify a buyer for that division. Astoria Women’s Health division was based on Eden Prairie, Minnesota before it permanently closed its... Read more »

A jury has awarded five plaintiffs $500 million after determining Pinnacle hip devices manufactured by Johnson & Johnson were defective and the company failed to warn about potential risks associated with their devices. This marks the second Pinnacle hip implant trial, and 8,000 other cases are still pending in federal court. Plaintiffs... Read more »

IVC filters are designed to protect patients from life-threatening blood clots, but two recently filed class action lawsuits in Canada claim the opposite. In January, Wendy Kopeck filed a $200 million class action lawsuit against Cook Medical after doctors deemed her IVC filter removal surgery too risky to perform back in... Read more »

A New Jersey woman has received a $13.5 million vaginal mesh award from Ethicon, after a Philadelphia Court of Common pleas jury ruled in her favor in mid-February. Sharon Carlino filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming she was severely injured by the product manufactured by the Johnson & Johnson... Read more »

Measuring errors at a manufacturing plant in England have left thousands of hip implant recipients vulnerable to the possibility of injury and early implant failure. DePuy Orthopedics has admitted errors in the manufacturing of some of its metal-on-metal implants at a Yorkshire factory and now faces questions from patients and... Read more »

The multi-sector health care company, Johnson & Johnson (J&J), has agreed to pay upwards of $120 million to resolve thousands of lawsuits filed by women who sustained injuries after utilizing their transvaginal mesh devices. This first settlement from the company’s Ethicon Inc. unit—which will compensate 2,000 to 3,000 women—is the initial move... Read more »

To date, plaintiffs have filed about 100 Bard IVC filter lawsuits in federal court, although that number is expected to climb. The parties have recently proposed a discovery schedule for the cases, which may allow the first federal bellwether trials to be scheduled as early as 2017. The parties have... Read more »

According to a recent Zimmer hip lawsuit, the device’s faulty design left the plaintiff with ongoing pain and severe injuries. The plaintiff cites a history of premature failure associated with this device, which the company allegedly knew about even as they continued to market their product to the medical community and general... Read more »

Jacqueline Goyena of North Carolina is demanding that Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals be held liable for injuries that allegedly stemmed from her use of the defendant’s birth control device, Mirena. Specifically, she claims she was diagnosed with pseudotumor cerebri (PTC), also known as idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IH), which is a serious... Read more »

Permanent bone and tissue damage due to metal debris is the allegation made by a plaintiff who recently filed a lawsuit against Biomet. The plaintiff claims the faulty nature of her Biomet metal-on-metal hip led to injuries and the need for revision surgery just a few short years after her initial... Read more »