As Lipitor lawsuits continue to mount, it can be hard to keep track of the number of plaintiffs involved in the Lipitor multidistrict litigation. One year ago, Lipitor lawsuits were estimated to number just under 1,000. But many Lipitor lawsuits include more than one plaintiff. As one lawyer set to representing Lipitor plaintiffs in the South Carolina multidistrict litigation was reported to have said in a Reuters article, the ...
How Many Lipitor Plaintiffs Are There?
Posted September 12, 2015 in Lipitor | Product News and Recalls
The Current State of Lipitor Lawsuits
Posted September 7, 2015 in Lipitor | Product News and Recalls
What began as 56 federal actions against the maker of the world’s best selling drug has grown into a thousand-member multidistrict litigation. And with the first trial just months away, Lipitor lawsuits continue to pile up. So just what did Pfizer do to draw the legal fire of thousands of former Lipitor users? Several allegations have been leveled at the New York–based pharmaceutical giant, ranging from overly aggressive ...
How Many Lipitor Lawsuits Will There Be?
Posted September 4, 2015 in Lipitor | Product News and Recalls
At least a thousand Lipitor lawsuits have already been filed as part of a South Carolina multidistrict litigation. Plaintiffs in Lipitor lawsuits claim pharmaceutical giant Pfizer marketed its cholesterol drug without regard for the safety of patients, concealing information about the link between Lipitor and diabetes. As Lipitor lawsuits continue to pour in, many are wondering just how large the litigation will grow. The lead lawyer ...
Number of New Diabetes Diagnoses Strongly Increase After Medicaid Expansion
Posted May 4, 2015 in Product News and Recalls
After a number of states expanded their Medicaid eligibility to include low-income adults, the number of new diabetes diagnoses also increased. A study in Diabetes Care talks about how expansion of Medicaid eligibility has had a big effect on the availability of healthcare to patients in vulnerable populations. Modern Healthcare recently detailed the study and some other possible results of the care expansion.
According to the study, ...
continue reading...4 Things You Absolutely Need to Know About Lipitor Lawsuits
Posted March 27, 2015 in Lipitor | Product News and Recalls
As evidence continues to mount proving Lipitor’s role in causing Type II diabetes in women, questions continue to surface about how to file a Lipitor lawsuit.
The cholesterol-reduction drug has been on the market since 1996 and millions of prescriptions have been written each year since. It wasn’t until 2012, however, that the Food and Drug Administration began raising alarms about a possible link between Lipitor and diabetes, particularly among female patients.
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continue reading...Lipitor Lawsuits Continue to Accumulate Against Pfizer
Posted February 27, 2015 in Lipitor | Product News and Recalls
The number of Lipitor lawsuits against the pharmaceutical company Pfizer continues to grow. A story in Reuters explains the rising number of diabetes lawsuits that allege the anti-cholesterol drug has caused serious health complications in women. The number of lawsuits filed over the past five months in federal court has gone from 56 to almost 1,000.
In 2012 the FDA issued a warning that statins such as Lipitor have been linked to an increase in blood ...
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