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Bard Ordered to Pay $68 M in the First NJ Pelvic Mesh Trial
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The first New Jersey Pelvic Mesh Trial convened before Bergen County Superior Court Judge James DeLuca awarded $35 Million to the Plaintiff as punitive damages, a day after the jury had announced $33 Million as compensatory damages to the…
C.R. Bard Asked To Pay $33 M as Compensatory Damages
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C.R. Bard Inc. was ordered to pay $33 million as compensatory damages to the plaintiff by the New Jersey state court in the first C.R. Bard Transvaginal Mesh…
Sangamon County Sues Opioid Makers
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On February 27, Sangamon County filed a lawsuit against the opioid manufacturers and distributors due to the growing opioid crisis in Illinois, which resulted in 27 deaths…
Talc-Asbestos Case Ends With an $80 Million Punitive Award
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The jury overseeing the two-month-long Mesothelioma trial ordered J&J and its talc supplier to pay $80 million in punitive damages to a man and his wife seeking compensation for his diagnosis of mesothelioma (a cancer of the lung) allegedly…
Bard Hernia Mesh Plaintiffs Submit Consolidation Request
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The rising number of Hernia Mesh cases against C.R. Bard urged a group of plaintiffs to file a motion with the JPML to centralize all Bard Ventralex and Bard Perfix hernia mesh lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio…
Invokana Product Liability Lawsuit filed By a Texas Man
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Johnson & Johnson and its Janssen Pharmaceuticals subsidiary have to face yet another product liability lawsuit filed by a man from Texas for undergoing transmetatarsal and guillotine amputations of the right foot above the ankle. The…
Essure Premarket Approval Modified by The FDA
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After receiving nearly 12,000 adverse event reports related to the Essure birth control implant last year, the FDA decided to restrict the sales and distribution of the device to…
Mirena IUD Lawsuits: Science Day Convenes
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Mirena Pseudotumor cerebri lawsuits, filed against Bayer Healthcare, are centralized as a part of MDL: 2767, established in April 2017, for coordinated pre-trial…
Bard to Face the Second IVC Filter Bellwether Trial in May
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The second Bard IVC filter lawsuit is scheduled to begin on May 15, 2018, filed by a woman from Georgia, who was implanted with C.R. Bard’s Eclipse blood clot filter to treat recurrent deep vein thrombosis in 2010. A pretrial conference is…
Come May, AbbVie to face Another AndroGel Bellwether Trial
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Testosterone Replacement Therapy lawsuits are centralized before U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly in the Northern District of Illinois for coordinated discovery and management, as part of a federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) 2545 (In re:…
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