Product liability cases in the U.S. federal court system reached an eight-year high last year, maintaining an upward trend that started in 2015, according to a new litigation report by Lex Machina. The report found that Johnson & Johnson faced 70,924 product liability lawsuits in the five-year period since 2015, the most of any company. […]
MONTGOMERY, ALA. (May 18, 2020) – Fourteen Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C. attorneys have been selected to the 2020 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers list. Those named to this prestigious list are: Jere Beasley, Founding Attorney Greg Allen, Lead Products Liability Attorney Tom Methvin, Managing Attorney Cole Portis, Personal Injury Section […]
Federal authorities announced the prosecution of a former pharmacy co-owner and chief executive who orchestrated a massive health care fraud scheme. The scheme was designed to cheat private and government health insurance programs out of more than $200 million. The Case of John Jeremy Adams John Jeremy Adams, 39, of Panama City Beach, Florida, pleaded […]
A Georgia man believes the heartburn drug Zantac caused him to develop colon cancer, and he wants the makers of the drug to pay up, Law360 reported. Robert R. Pagniello filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Sanofi-Aventis US LLC and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc., alleging the companies were aware that the Zantac they manufactured and sold […]
Netflix has released a documentary series portraying one father’s efforts to track down those responsible for his son’s drug overdose death – a journey that opens his eyes to addiction and leads him into the heart of America’s opioid epidemic. Shown in four parts, The Pharmacist follows Dan Schneider, a retired pharmacist from St. Bernard […]
Washington, D.C.-based attorney Ken Feinberg, the mediator appointed to resolve the thousands of lawsuits filed against Monsanto Co. involving its Roundup weedkiller, says he is optimistic about settling the cases. Ken recently told members of the press: There are talks with various lawyers around the nation who have significant inventories of Roundup cases. I’m optimistic […]
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., has agreed to pay $8.7 million to Oklahoma to settle claims that the company helped fuel the national opioid epidemic, wreaking economic damages across the state. As part of the settlement agreement, Endo will not market its opioids in the state nor will it pay to promote opioids in Oklahoma. “The measures […]
Consumers have hit Pfizer Inc. with a proposed class action lawsuit. Plaintiffs claim that the pharmaceutical company should have known its heartburn drug Zantac (known generically as Ranitidine) was contaminated with NDMA, a “carcinogenic and liver-damaging impurity” but failed to warn consumers, according to Law360. NDMA is short for N-nitrosodimethylamine. Additional consumers have filed at […]
Lawyers in the opioid multidistrict litigation (MDL) debated in a hearing on Nov. 6 over future bellwether trials, a showdown that will closely follow settlements that canceled the MDL’s first trial. The MDL began almost two years ago and covers more than 2,600 cities and counties that blame drug manufacturers, distributors, and pharmacies for an […]
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Bloomberg has reported that earlier this year, Bausch Health Cos. Inc., manufacturer of Shower to Shower, quietly reformulated the body powder. Bausch replaced the talcum powder in its product with cornstarch “to keep the product in line with market trends and customer preferences,” company spokeswoman Lainie Keller said in a statement. “This formula change was […]
After Johnson and Johnson’s historic loss in the nation’s first opioid trial, there can be no doubt that Big Pharma faces overwhelming exposure from the opioid litigation. The findings by the court in the Oklahoma case have expanded public scrutiny to other responsible companies that caused the epidemic and resulting crisis. The Purdue Pharma bankruptcy […]
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