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Court of Appeal Cuts Off Speculative Product Liability Claims

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In 2024, Ontario’s highest court affirmed the principle that a certifiable tort claim requires a plaintiff to provide some basis in fact for a present, materialized injury that is “sufficiently serious.” A legally compensable...more

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Recent Developments in Depo-Provera Litigation: Formation and Progress of Multidistrict Litigation (MDL)

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The legal landscape surrounding Depo-Provera, a long-acting injectable birth control, has entered a pivotal phase. With the growing number of lawsuits alleging that the drug caused serious brain tumors known as meningiomas,...more

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Meningiomas and Depo-Provera: Where to Get Help

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Depo-Provera, a commonly used injectable contraceptive, has been linked to an increased risk of meningiomas, which are a type of brain tumor. If you or someone you know has been diagnosed with a meningioma after using...more

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Can Birth Control Injections Cause a Meningioma? The Science Behind the Lawsuits

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Depo-Provera has been used by millions of women as a convenient and long-lasting contraceptive option. However, recent concerns have emerged about a possible link between the long-term use of these injections and the...more

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Settlement Highlights Issue of Deliberate Indifference Involving Medical Need in Jails

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A recent $2.75 million settlement by Robins Kaplan LLP has drawn attention to a troubling case of deliberate indifference to medical needs at Anoka County Jail (the “Jail”). Deyonta Green, who struggled with addiction issues,...more

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Meningioma and Birth Control Lawsuits: The Case Against Depo-Provera

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Women across the country are taking legal action against Pfizer, the manufacturer of Depo-Provera, alleging that the company failed to warn about the risks of developing meningiomas — generally non-cancerous but potentially...more

Snell & Wilmer

Arizona Supreme Court Decides Cipro’s Black Box Warning Cannot Replace an Expert Opinion

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In Arizona, civil claims against health care professionals must be accompanied by a certified statement regarding whether “expert opinion testimony is necessary to prove the health care professional’s standard of care or...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Palmer v. Teva Canada Ltd.: Court of Appeal Confirms No Compensation for Risk “In the Air”

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In Palmer v. Teva Canada Limited, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the lower court’s decision to deny certification of a proposed product liability class action seeking damages for the alleged increased risk of being...more

Console and Associates, P.C.

Several Manufacturers of SSRI Antidepressants Add Warnings of Postpartum Hemorrhaging

Depression during pregnancy, or prepartum depression, is a common condition that an estimated ten percent of women in the United States experience. The development of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (“SSRI”) offered...more

Carlton Fields

No CGL Coverage for Opioid Distributor Sued for Economic Damages but Not Bodily Injury Damage

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In Westfield National Insurance Co. v. Quest Pharmaceuticals, the Sixth Circuit held that two insurers owed no coverage obligations to Quest Pharmaceuticals in connection with 77 lawsuits filed against it alleging misconduct...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Pharmacy Not Liable for Filling Prescriptions as Ordered

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A Suffolk County, New York court held on November 16 that White’s Apothecary in East Hampton was not negligent when it filled a physician’s opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions as ordered....more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Product Liability 2021 Year in Review

Massachusetts federal and state courts issued several important product liability decisions in 2021. Nutter’s Product Liability practice group reviewed these cases and report on their significant holdings as follows...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

New York Supreme Court Allows Plaintiff to Plead Statutory Fraud Claim with Medical Malpractice Negligence Cause of Action

A New York Supreme Court allowed a Plaintiff to assert a statutory fraud claim in the context of deceptive business practices under New York General Business Law (“GBL”) § 349 against Plaintiff’s neurologist in conjunction...more

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$8 billion Risperdal verdict? It’s not the money, it’s the message, Big Pharma

When regular citizens get together in the civil justice system to deliberate difficult claims about complex matters, they may not get everything just right to the satisfaction of the disputing parties. But jurors’ wisdom and...more

Foley Hoag LLP

Product Liability Update: July 2019

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Massachusetts Federal Court Dismisses Suit By Japanese Plaintiffs Against Massachusetts Reactor Designer For Japanese Disaster Based On Forum Non Conveniens, Citing Japanese Compensation System That Provided Alternative Forum...more

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Delaware Superior Court’s Complex Commercial Litigation Division Declines to Dismiss Delaware Attorney General’s Claims Against...

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State of Delaware ex rel. Jennings v. Purdue Pharma L.P., et al., C.A. No. N18C-01-223 MMJ CCLD (Del. Super. Feb. 4, 2019). In January 2018, Delaware’s Attorney General filed an action against certain opioid makers and...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Product Liability 2018 Year in Review

Massachusetts state and federal courts issued a number of important product liability decisions in 2018. The Product Liability practice group at Nutter recently reviewed these cases. Highlighted below are some of the key...more

Mayer Brown

New Jury Imposes Disproportionate Punitive Award In AbbVie Retrial

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Only three months after AbbVie obtained a retrial of a case in which a jury had imposed $150 million in punitive damages without awarding any compensatory damages, a new jury awarded the same plaintiff $200,000 in...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Significant New York Drug and Device 2017 Product Liability Decisions

To prepare the best product liability defense for pharmaceuticals and medical devices as well as anticipate and strategically plan for future challenges in the medical and life sciences legal world, it is often helpful to...more

Smart & Biggar

Apotex granted damages from contract research organization for delayed FDA approval of two products

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On December 22, 2017, Patillo J. of the Ontario Super Court of Justice held that Apotex was entitled to $11,303,131.80, plus pre-judgment interest, for losses flowing from delays in the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s...more

Butler Snow LLP

Pro Te: Solutio - Vol. 10 No. 2 – Spring 2017

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It’s Spring! In this issue of Pro Te, we do a little a “spring cleaning” to brush the dust off some familiar topics that we consider in day-to-day pharmaceutical litigation. In The Forgotten Element? Warnings Proximate...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Tenth Circuit Finds Citizen Petition Denial to be "Clear Evidence" of Conflict Preemption

A U.S. Court of Appeals has held that a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) denial of a citizen petition can be “clear evidence” of conflict preemption under the test set forth by the Supreme Court in Wyeth v. Levine, 555 U.S....more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Xarelto Litigation – Bellwether Update

Searcy Denney Mass Tort Unit attorneys Brenda Fulmer and Cal Warriner have filed three more lawsuits on behalf of Florida and North Carolina residents who suffered bleeding in their brains and GI tracts following use of...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine in the Wake of DeCoster

Executive Summary: The most important Park doctrine case in over forty years may be heading to the Supreme Court – but not if the federal government has its way. The Responsible Corporate Officer doctrine (“RCO doctrine”),...more

Foley Hoag LLP

Product Liability Update: April 2017

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Massachusetts Federal Court In Prescription Drug Case Holds “Learned Intermediary” Rule Requiring Warnings Only To Prescribing Physician Applied Even Though Patient and Caregiver Were Physicians, But Experts’ Affidavits of...more

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