Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits

New Data Shows Impact of Workplace Injuries

New data released on the 2019 Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index shows that the 10 most common types of workplace injuries cost employers nearly $47 billion and comprised nearly 85% of all workplace injury expenses.

The most common type of injury listed is “overexertion involving outside sources.” Injuries in this category cost over $13 billion last year alone and accounted for almost 24% of all workplace injury expenses. Overexertion involving outside sources refers to injuries or illnesses read more.... --> continue reading...

Zantac Carcinogen Lawsuits Consolidated into Multidistrict Litigation

Zantac lawsuits consolidated into MDLAs the number of lawsuits filed over NDMA contaminated Zantac continues to grow, over 140 such suits have been sent to a federal judge to be heard as a multidistrict litigation. The MDL will be the first for U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg who serves as a judge for the Southern District of Florida. In selecting Judge Rosenberg, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation called her “an ...

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Medtronic Sees Class I Recall Over Faulty Insulin Pumps

Medtronic insulin pumps recalledMedical device manufacturer Medtronic is back in the news but this time it’s not for their surgical staplers. The company has recalled some 322,000 MiniMed insulin pumps over concerns that they may be missing a critical component, or that those that have the component might actually be broken. The faulty or missing component can cause the pump to either over- or under-deliver insulin to the wearer and, as ...

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Medtronic Stapler Litigation Shows Ties to Secret FDA Database

Medtronic stapler lawsuits show ties to secret fda loophole databaseWhen news broke of an internal FDA database of medical device injuries so secret that few within the agency even knew of its existence, the discovery obviously led to the raising of a multitude of questions. Why was an agency tasked with keeping American families safe allowing the companies it was supposed to be regulating to hide reports of injuries caused by their devices? Why ...

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Zantac May Produce Harmful Carcinogen on Its Own

research shows Zantac may produce cancer-causing carcinogen while in storageNew concerns are emerging over the presence of a known carcinogen in the compound used to make heartburn medication Zantac. Things have taken an interesting twist however, as researchers explore the possibility that the source of the contamination may be the Zantac itself.

The issue of NDMA contamination in Zantac and other drugs based on its main ingredient first came to light last year. That was when ...

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It’s Becoming Pretty Obvious that Juul Targeted Kids

2 investigative reports show intense marketing of Juul to childrenThey say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but the final months of 2019 might have people at Juul thinking otherwise. Two new investigative reports released late last year, one from The New York Times and the other from Reuters, lay out powerful arguments indicating that Juul was never intended solely to be a smoking cessation aid or an alternative to traditional cigarettes. In fact, ...

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