The attorneys at Lopez McHugh are actively representing women who claim to have been injured by defective transvaginal mesh products. As a result, we have been keeping a close eye on the developments of the Multidistrict Litigation (known as MDL) in the Southern District of West Virginia.
In the MDL, the court recently issued a pretrial order that has selected four cases to serve as bellwether trials. The first bellwether trial is set ...
continue reading...When is the last time you went to watch your favorite television show or listen to your favorite radio program and you were able to do so without being exposed to an advertisement from a pharmaceutical company? It feels like almost every day we are introduced to a new drug that claims to improve our lives. It is true that modern medicine can greatly improve our quality of life, but all drugs carry risks, and the risks are often minimized ...
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In the wake of the recent recall of 16,440 bottles of Enteric Coated Aspirin Tablets replaced with acetaminophen, a new study reports that patients with liver failure caused by an overdose of acetaminophen suffer from “significantly lower overall health” than patients with liver failure due to other causes. The study appears in the new edition of the medical journal Liver Transplantation, the official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the ...
On November 9, 2007 Merck agreed to a $4.85 billion global settlement in the Vioxx litigation. Bloomberg reports that Merck has now agreed to pay another $23 million for allegedly misleading their customers into buying their drug.
Customers are uniting in nationwide group litigation contending that “Merck officials sold Vioxx for unapproved uses and made false statements about its cardiovascular safety.” In other words, they were duped into buying the painkiller and now feel they ...
continue reading...A panel of Federal judges recently created a “Multi-District Litigation” to consolidate and speed up numerous Tylenol lawsuits that have been filed around the country. The proceeding, known as MDL 2436, was created by order of the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on April 1, 2013 and is currently assigned to U.S. District Judge Lawrence F. Stengel of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia.
When creating the MDL, the Panel noted ...
continue reading...A recent NY Times article discusses a recent trend that shows an increase in the number of emergency room visits as a result of the use of prescription stimulants such as Adderall and Ritalin. According to data gathered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a branch of the Department of Health and Human Services, emergency rooms have seen a dramatic increase in the number of visits related to prescription stimulants.
The number of emergency room visits ...
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