On Friday, February 20, 2015, DePuy/ Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay approximately $420 million more to resolve approximately 1400 additional DePuy ASR lawsuits. The order came from the Court extending the settlement offer to Plaintiffs who had revision surgery after August 31, 2013 up…
On December 22, 2014, China officially approved imports of a type of genetically modified corn – Syngenta’s Agrisure Viptera® MR162, ending China’s yearlong ban of imports of all corn containing any trace of the Viptera MR162 trait. The ban had essentially shut U.S. corn out…
Our firm is proud to be a part of the Boys and Girls Club’s 2014 holiday gift program. We are helping to ensure that 50 children in need receive gifts this Holiday Season. We are also sponsoring two deserving families in need of help. We…
Purdue, maker of the painkiller OxyContin, has won dismissals in over 400 personal injury lawsuits related to the medication, has settled product liability cases involving the drug without disclosing the terms, and has defeated more than ten class actions suits brought against it over the…
Former Takata employees have charged that the Japanese airbag manufacturer conducted secret tests in 2004 on 50 airbags retrieved from scrapyards, saying that tests were performed after work hours, on weekends, and holidays during the summer of 2004 at the company’s American headquarters in Auburn…
The Wright Medical Profemur Total Hip System was approved in the U.S. as a substantial equivalent to existing hip replacement systems, but it is becoming apparent that design defects may make the device prone to early failure. Signs indicating potential problems with the system include: …
Just over two years since the Stryker Rejuvenate and ABGII hip implant products were recalled from the market in June 2012, national leadership in the multi-district litigation (MDL) today announced a global settlement proposal for all Stryker Rejuvenate and ABGII hip implant victims who have…
Although many proponents of tort reform believe that fear of malpractice lawsuits prompts physicians to order unnecessary tests and indirectly drives up medical costs, a Rand Corporation study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine found otherwise. The study analyzed the experienc
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) is being asked to centralize approximately two dozen Xarelto lawsuits before one judge in the Southern District of Illinois. The cases are currently spread across the U.S. in several different U.S. District Courts. Consolidating them is expe
The first bellwether jury trial began yesterday over the controversial DePuy Pinnacle hip implant that has caused thousands of patients to needlessly suffer as a result of the product’s defective design and questionable marketing practices. Kathleen Herlihy-Paoli, claims the metal hips made by J&J,
Atlanta, Georgia based law firm Childers, Schlueter & Smith, LLC recently filed another 25 Stryker hip replacement lawsuits, joining nearly 1,800 other Stryker lawsuits pending in U.S. District Court. Stryker lawsuits have been consolidated into multicounty litigation (MCL) in the Superior Court in
Nearly 3,000 lawsuits have been filed against Stryker related to their Rejuvenate and ABG II Modular-Neck Stem Hip Implants. Here are some common questions that patients and the general public may have regarding these products: 1) Why were the Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II Modular-Neck…
