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What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2018-Jun-18

U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson dismissed 95 Plavix lawsuits against Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis as the patients involved in the MDL failed to respond to the court orders. It remains unclear whether the patients will represent themselves or retain new counsel after the attorneys withdraw…

What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2018-Jun-11

A safety alert by hip implant manufacturer Stryker reveals that certain sizes of their LFIT V40 Hip implant may rupture. The company received a higher than expected number of charges stating that the femoral head broke free of the stem that connects it to the thigh bone requiring revision…

What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2018-Jun-04

Agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology company Monsanto was ordered by a Missouri Federal Court to pay $21.5 million as the settlement amount to a class of consumers who filed a lawsuit against its weed killer Roundup. The verdict was given out by U.S District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig…

What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2018-May-28

Johnson & Johnson, Imery’s Talc America, and the Rite Aid drug store chain are the defendants named in the Talcum Powder lawsuit that went to trial on May 14 in South Carolina’s Darlington County Court of Common Pleas. The lawsuit was filed by the family of Bertila Boyd-Bostic and claims…

What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Week? 2018-May-21

AndexXa, the only antidote for Factor Xa blood thinner, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) on May 4 to reverse uncontrollable bleeding problems, will be initially available in only those 40 to 50 hospitals where the clinical trials were held. It will later be provided to about 1,000 different providers after Portola manages…

What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Month? 2018-Apr

A lawsuit was filed against Johnson & Johnson, Imerys Talc America, and Personal Care Products Council in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts by a woman from Massachusetts, who alleges that the long-term use of the Talcum Powder and Shower- to- Shower resulted in…

What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Month? 2018-Mar

No signs of settlements in the ongoing Xarelto Litigation currently underway in the Eastern District of Louisiana, leads U. S. District Judge Eldon Fallon to order two separate waves of lawsuits, each comprising 600 cases totaling to 1,200 lawsuits to be prepared for trial. 

What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Month? 2018-Feb

Another product liability lawsuit has been filed by a woman from South Carolina against Johnson & Johnson and others, alleging that the use of talcum powder sold under their names, led to her diagnosis of ovarian cancer and the need for hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, full surgical staging and other treatments. She further…

What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Month? 2018-Jan

The first AndroGel bellwether trial announced in favor of the plaintiff awarding him $150 million as punitive damages and no compensatory damages in June 2017 was tossed by the U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly, overseeing 6,000 plus testosterone replacement lawsuits centralized under MDL 2545 (In re: Testosterone Replacement Therapy…

What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Month? 2017-Dec

Plaintiffs' request to reinstate 13 Risperdal gynecomastia cases was denied by a Pennsylvania state appeals panel agreeing with the trial judge that the claims were preempted by Michigan's drug shield law and that the plaintiffs could not prove that the fraud exception applied to their claims. Janssen…

What Happened In The MassTorts World Last Month? 2017-Nov

Plaintiffs of the Stryker LFIT V40Femoral Head Products Liability Litigation have filed the master complaint under MDL No. 2768, trials for which will commence September 16, 2019, onward. This would now help to streamline the litigation process wherein the new plaintiffs would be able to…