According to a recent news article from My Northwest, some hospitals are now offering warranties to patients who undergo total knee replacement surgery. As the article discussed, and Boston knee replacement attorneys are aware, many hospitals make more from procedures that go wrong than those done without incident. The hospital,…
According a recent news article from the Telegraph, researchers in England believe one day, hip replacement operations may no longer be necessary, as a result of studies involving an endangered Mexican salamander called an axoloti. The axoloti is an amphibian but lives its life under water and has been called…
Our Boston transvaginal mesh attorneys understand for women who are victims of defective Transvaginal Mesh (TVM) products, the impact can be devastating and hard for others to comprehend. According to a news article from The Claiborne Progress, one TVM patient has joined a support group run by a non-profit organization…
According to a recent article from the West Virginia Record, a federal jury has just awarded a plaintiff $3.27 million in a multidistrict litigation (MDL) case involving transvaginal mesh (TVM) products manufactured by Johnson & Johnson. This case involved the Gynecare TVT Obturator. This device, manufactured by Ethicon, a Johnson…
As our Boston products liability attorneys can explain, the use of a qualified and knowledgeable expert can significantly increase a plaintiff’s chance of obtaining complete financial recovery. Chapman, et al. v. The Procter & Gamble Dist., et al., an appeal heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the…
As our Xarelto attorneys have discussed on other blog entries, Johnson and Johnson, Bayer, U.S., and German drugmakers involved with the production and marketing of the drug are performing new studies to increase the profit potential for their flagship anticoagulant. According to a recent article from The Wall Street Journal,…
According to a recent Bloomberg article, Boston Scientific was found liable and ordered pay $73 million in connection with its Transvaginal Mesh (TVM) medical device. As our experienced vaginal mesh attorneys in Massachusetts can explain, the product involved in the lawsuit was the Obtryx sling. The Obtryx sling is a…
A plaintiff attorney’s failure to register for the multi-district litigation’s case management/electronic case file system resulted in the dismissal of the plaintiff’s case against the makers of menopause drug Prempro. The decision was recently upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Freeman v. Wyeth, et…
A pain medication known as Darvocet has been on the market since 1972, when it first received approval from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. Less than six years later, the medical community acknowledged a link between the drug (a combination of propoxyphene and acetaminophen) and heart trouble. The concerns…
When a patent expires on a medication, drug companies can produce generic versions of the drug to sell to the public. Unfortunately, this can create significant legal complications. In 2011, a court decision established that generic drugmakers cannot make changes to product labels even if the drugmaker is alerted to…