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Kentucky Recall Attorney: Hydroxycut Recalled
The federal Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of Hydroxycut after concerns of serious health problems and death due to use of the product. Hydroxycut is a popular dietary supplement that is used mainly for weight loss and appetite co...
*Update* Pfizer Unit Pharmacia and Upjohn May Be Tagged Again For Some Of The Same Allegations As In Mirapex Cases
In an update to our previous post, here, a jury ordered a $28 million verdict for punitive damages. Punitive damages require a finding of wanton and reckless conduct. The jury heard evidence that the drug companies' attempt to suppress the concerns...
Prempro Attorney Kentucky: Pfizer Must Pay $28 Million in Punitive Damages in Prempro Case
In an update to an earlier post, Bahe Cook Cantley & Jones Prempro lawyer Larry Jones reports that the Philadelphia jury ordered Pfizer on Monday to pay $28 million in punitive damages to one of the victims of its hormone replacement drug. The pun...
Total Body Formula Cases Handled By Louisville, Kentucky Lawyer Larry Jones
Bahe Cook Cantley & Jones Total Body Formula attorney Larry Jones is one of the lead lawyers in the Total Body Formula Multi-District Litigation proceeding. In March 2008, Total Body Formula, a liquid dietary supplement, was recalled because certa...
Kentucky Meridia Attorney: FDA Issues Warning About Meridia Drug
Bahe Cook Cantley & Jones Meridia lawyer Larry Jones says, "The federal Food & Drug Administration has notified healthcare professionals and patients that it is reviewing preliminary data from a recent study suggesting that patients using sibutramine...
Prempro Attorney: Jury Awards $6.3 million in Prempro Case
Yet another jury has found against Pfizer in the Prempro cases. Recently, a jury has awarded $6.3 million in damages to a woman who claimed she developed breast cancer after taking the Pfizer menopause drug Prempro. In the verdict, jurors also found...
Kentucky Yaz (Yasmin) Birth Control Lawyer: Drug Injury Law
Yaz (and it's generic version, Yasmin) has been under scrutiny for potentially causing serious injuries to women using the popular birth control pill. Yaz is manufactured and sold by Bayer Pharmaceuticals. One of the most serious problems suspecte...
Pfizer Ordered to Pay $75 Million in Punitive Damages for Dangerous Prempro Drug
According to various sources, a Pennsylvania jury ordered Pfizer to pay a punitive damage award of $75 million to a lady who developed cancer after being prescribed Prempro, a menopause drug. While the exact amount of the punitive award has been sea...
FDA Requires Warning for AndroGel (testosterone gel) and Testim
The federal Food and Drug Administration is now requiring warnings for Androgel after it has been demonstrated that contact with this gel is harmful to children. In fact, the new warnings for AndroGel require as follows: * Virilization has been...
Birth Control Pills Cause Injury: Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella Cases to Be Consolidated in MDL
Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella are causing a significant litigation stir these days. However, I've received calls regarding these cases for over the last year. The three birth control pills contain drospirenone. Yaz and Yasmin are taken orally and combine...
Paxil Caused Birth Defects in Children
A Pennsylvania court recently ordered GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of anti-depressant Paxil, to pay a $2.5 million dollar judgment in the first lawsuit claiming "that the company's Paxil antidepressant caused birth defects in children whose mothers too...
GlaxoSmithKline Knew Paxil Likely Caused Birth Defects As Early As 2001
A former GlaxoSmithKline executive testified that the drug maker knew as early as 2001 that the antidepressant Paxil could likely cause birth defects in the fetuses of pregnant women. In a videotaped deposition, former Glaxo drug-safety executive Ja...
Kentucky Drug Injury Lawyer Update: In Paxil Birth Defect Case, GSK Ordered To Turn Over Emails
A federal judge has ordered GlaxoSmithKline to turn over e-mails between the company and researchers investigating a possible link between the antidepressant Paxil and birth defects, Bloomberg reports. GSK had attempted to avoid turning over the emai...
Antidepressant Drug Paxil Birth Defect Trial To Begin Next Week
A Philadelphia court is playing host to what may be the first of three bellwether trials over claims that the antidepressant drug Paxil causes birth defects. According to plaintiff claims, GlaxoSmithKline, the world’s second-largest drug maker, kn...
Promethazine Hydrochloride Injection --Black Box Warning
The FDA notified healthcare professionals that a Boxed Warning is being added to the prescribing information for Promethazine Hydrochloride products, describing the risks of severe tissue injury, including gangrene, requiring amputation following in...
Fosomax Update
A mistrial was declared today by U.S. District Court Judge John F. Keenan in Boles v. Merck, the first FOSAMAX case to go to trial. This case was the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee's first choice to take to trial. The Boles case was tried in New Yo...
