Tag Archives: products liability

  Hernia patients have filed lawsuits against the manufacturers of AlloDerm, a product made from the skin tissue of cadavers. They claim once implanted, the AlloDerm stretches and fails, resulting in serious and painful abdominal injuries, often requiring additional surgery. A hernia is a painful condition that occurs when an organ or tissue bulges through a weak spot in muscle of the structure that contains it. Often it’s an intestine that protrudes through the stomach wall. Surgeons will patch up …

    Drug manufacturer Allergan recently settled a case for an undisclosed amount, which claimed Botox caused botulism in a 5-year-old child in Oklahoma County. The boy suffered from leukodystrophy, a progressively degenerative neurological disease. His doctor treated his spasticity with Botox. The complaint states that a few days after the child was injected with Botox, he was diagnosed with botulinum poisoning and was hospitalized, requiring a ventilator and feeding tube. More than a year after the Botox injections, the …

  Millions of patients take selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for depression, anxiety and other disorders. One out of 10 people in the United States use  antidepressants, making them one of the most widely prescribed medications according to a 2011 National Center for Health Statistics report. In our news video, Lawyers.com Editorial Director Betsy Kim interviews attorney Harris Pogust, a partner at Pogust Braslow & Milrood in Conshohocken, Penn. He claims patients on SSRIs such as Celexa, Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft …

  Kristian Rasmussen accuses the world’s largest provider of dialysis products and services of knowingly endangering dialysis patients’ lives. A partner at Cory Watson Crowder & DeGaris in Birmingham, Ala., Kristian filed the first products liability cases in the country against the German company, Fresenius, over GranuFlo and NaturaLyte. Fresenius manufactures these products, used to clean and filter blood of people whose kidneys have failed. Kristian asserts GranuFlo and NaturaLyte increase the risks of atrial fibrillation (irregular heartbeats), heart attacks …

  The birth control pills, Yasmin and Yaz, and the generic form, ocella, are under fire as 10,000 lawsuits have been filed against the German pharmaceutical company Bayer, and the generic drug makers, Barr Laboratories and Teva Pharmaceuticals. The medications are linked to higher rates of blood clots that caused personal injuries and have killed people. In this Lawyers.com podcast, reporter Matt Plessner speaks with Michael London. He’s the plaintiffs’ co-lead counsel in the multi-district litigation and a partner at …