A new lawsuit out of North Carolina alleges that Insys Therapeutics is responsible for illegally promoting a fentanyl-based cancer pain medication to enhance their own profits amidst the opioid epidemic blooming in the United States. There are strict federal rules in place regarding how drugs of all types, including pain medications, can be promoted safely. […]
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A Virginia woman alleging that she was never warned of the severe injuries and side effects associated with a popular medication has come forward to file a lawsuit. According to the Xarelto lawsuit, the plaintiff used Xarelto from May of 2013 through February of the following year. Xarelto was prescribed for the treatment of atrial
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A lawsuit has been filed after a semi-truck accident killed a woman and her two children. The semi-truck accident lawsuit occurred in a Chicago neighborhood and names both the truck driver and his employer as responsible for the wrongful deaths. The aunt of the woman killed in the semi-truck accident alleges three wrongful death counts
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An Oklahoma nursing home is being accused of neglect and other deficiencies after a 94-year-old woman was hospitalized with severe injuries. The family of the elderly resident say they suspect a fall caused the injuries. They say the culprit is nursing home neglect; their family member had fallen before at the residence, but nursing home
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IVC filter lawsuits have been on the rise lately, allegedly due to very high failure rates about which patients were never warned. Medical device manufacturers, Cook Medical and C.R. Bard, are on the defensive end as they handle numerous IVC filter lawsuits. These medical devices have been associated with dozens of injuries and even some deaths.
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According to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, hernia mesh labels need to better describe the risks associated. “While standardized terminology has been proposed in literature, property knowledge has not adequately permeated surgery, industry, or regulatory guidelines,” stated the study. “There is an extreme underreporting and lack of consistency
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A collision repair that deviated from the repair procedures outlined by Honda ultimately named a Texas of body shop in a major lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges more than $42 million in damages after a couple became trapped inside their 2010 Honda Fit. When serious injuries are caused by a defective repair, including the improper installation
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Lawsuits alleging that drug manufacturers fueled the opioid epidemic with easy access to highly addictive pain killers have been consolidated in Ohio. The plaintiffs in the lawsuits asked the court to consolidate the opioid lawsuits to avoid duplicative discovery and avoid inconsistent rulings. Currently, there are more than 60 lawsuits pending in federal courts against various
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A new lawsuit alleges that a Florida woman taking Xarelto suffered severe side effects, including nosebleeds. According to the lawsuit, Jeanne S., took Xarelto from Feb. 13, 2015 to Jan. 21, 2016 to treat atrial fibrillation; however, she began suffering nosebleeds from Xarelto and was instructed by her physician to stop taking the drug. Jeanne alleges
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Two Texas women have filed a lawsuit against C.R. England Trucking Company and one of its drivers after an 18-wheeler truck accident allegedly left them with severe and life-changing injuries. C.R. England, the trucking company in this case, is accused of breaching their duty to employ competent people and to train those individuals, while supervising and setting guidelines and
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A recent series of articles in Minnesota’s Star Tribune entitled Left to Suffer reveals that although nursing home abuse is a widespread, investigations are limited. According to the articles, in a single state, thousands of reports of nursing home abuse are not investigated and remain pending. State officials in Minnesota responded to the report, saying
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A surgical retrieval that failed prompted an Option Elite IVC filter lawsuit. The medical device that was intended to capture blood clots for those patients who faced a high risk of pulmonary embolism allegedly shifted out of position and got embedded in an Ohio man’s vena cava. The IVC filter lawsuit was recently filed in
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A Texas woman was awarded $43.5 million for a 2015 car wreck where she was rear ended by an oil field employee using a hands free cell phone. The plaintiff alleged in her texting while driving lawsuit that an employee of JC Fodale Energy Services rear ended her with an 2012 GMC Yukon in busy
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Another plaintiff has come forward to file a Physiomesh lawsuit after his implant allegedly caused him to suffer devastating pain and multiple drainage procedures. The lawsuit was filed against Johnson & Johnson and Ethicon Inc., the makers of the Physiomesh product. The Physiomesh lawsuit alleges that the defendants improperly manufactured, labeled, marketed and designed the hernia mesh
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The city of Greenfield, Massachusetts has lodged an opioid lawsuit against Purdue Pharma, AmerisourceBergen and other drugmakers, accusing the companies of illegally marketing and diverting prescription medications contributing to the nationwide opioid epidemic. The concept of filing an opioid lawsuit is picking up steam around the country as more cities try to grapple with the
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