Pharmaceutical and medical device giant Johnson & Johnson was hit with a huge, nearly $500 million verdict earlier this year over its defective Pinnacle hip implant made by subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics. Plaintiffs in the first bellwether trial claimed that the company failed to warn them about the risks of these metal-on-metal hips and the jury […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently announced that there is a need for increased and more urgent warnings about the dangers of mixing prescriptions containing opioid analgesics with those containing benzodiazepines. The FDA stated in a press release that the number of overdose deaths related to misuse of the two types of drugs is […]

Testosterone replacement drugs, such as AndroGel made by AbbVie, have been under scrutiny in recent years after complaints that they increase the risk of heart attack and blood clots surfaced. Victims have started lawsuits against the manufacturer and many of those have been consolidated in multidistrict litigation. The first eight lawsuits, which will act as […]

Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, a democrat from New York, and Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick, a republican from Pennsylvania worked together to introduce a bill that would allow women harmed by the Essure device to sue maker Bayer. Essure is a permanent sterilization device that has caused harm to many women and has even been linked to deaths. […]