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Health Insurers Ordered To Pay $524M To Plaintiffs In Nev. Hepatitis C Outbreak
LAS VEGAS - A Nevada state court jury has ordered two health insurers to pay $524 million in compensatory and punitive damages to three plaintiffs who claim the insurer's action contributed to them or...
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Judge Orders FDA To Take Age Restrictions Off Plan B Emergency Contraceptive...
BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Saying the U.S. secretary of Health and Welfare acted in an arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable way, a New York federal judge on April 4 ordered the Food and Drug Administration to...
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$142M Neurontin Verdict For Third-Party Payer Affirmed; Class Denial Reversed
BOSTON - A federal appeals court panel on April 3 affirmed a $142 million verdict against Pfizer Inc. for off-label marketing of Neurontin to a third-party payer, vacated summary judgment against...
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Supreme Court Denies Certiorari; Humana Can Sue GSK For Avandia Expenses
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on April 15 denied a petition for writ of certiorari filed by GlaxoSmithKine PLC (GSK), leaving stand a decision allowing a Medicare Advantage provider to seek...
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10 Avandia MDL Plaintiffs Settle With GSK After Appeal Of Noncompliance...
PHILADELPHIA - Ten Avandia multidistrict litigation plaintiffs whose cases were dismissed without prejudice for alleged failure to comply with record production settled their claims with defendant...
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FDA Committees To Meet In June To Discuss 'Readjudication' Of Avandia Heart...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Two Food and Drug Administration advisory committees will meet in June to discuss a "readjudication" of an Avandia heart trial, according to an advanced meeting notice released April...
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MDL Panel Asked To Centralize Januvia, Byetta, Victoza Pancreatic Cancer Cases
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Saying there will be hundreds or thousands of lawsuits involving claims that three incretin mimetic anti-diabetes drugs cause pancreatic cancer, two plaintiffs on April 5 asked the...
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Amgen To Pay $24.9M To Resolve Aranesp Kickback Suit Involving Large Pharmacies
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Amgen Inc. has agreed to pay $24.9 million to resolve civil allegations that it paid kickbacks to three long-term care pharmacies to get them to induce nursing homes to give the...
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Dental Implant Maker Enters Class Settlement With Dentists For 'Defective'...
LOS ANGELES - Nobel Biocare Holding AG has agreed to settle a class action with American dentists who claim that they were financially harmed when a dental implant failed sooner than warranted,...
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Bayer Wins Summary Judgment In False Vitamin Benefits Case
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge in California on April 10 excluded some plaintiff expert testimony and granted summary judgment to Bayer defendants in a class action alleging that the companies made false...
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Bayer Combination Aspirin Refund Class OKd After New Cy Pres Recipient
BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A New York federal judge on April 11 granted final approval to a $15 million refund class settlement for consumers who purchased Bayer Aspirin with Heart Advantage and Bayer Women's...
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Summary Judgment Denied In Aredia/Zometa Jaw Injury Case In Florida
TAMPA, Fla. - A Florida federal judge on April 2 denied summary judgment in an Aredia/Zometa jaw injury case, finding that the arguments by defendant Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. have already been...
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Fosamax Femur Fracture Experts Allowed In As 2nd MDL Trial Gets Under Way In...
TRENTON, N.J. - Two days into trial, a New Jersey federal judge presiding over the second Fosamax femur fracture trial denied Merck Sharp and Dohme Corp.'s motion to exclude causation testimony by four...
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Mirena IUD Perforation Cases Centralized In MDL Before Judge Seibel In New York
WASHINGTON, D.C. - More than 40 federal cases alleging that the Mirena hormonal intrauterine device (IUD) can migrate and perforate the uterus were centralized April 8 before U.S. Judge Cathy Seibel of...
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Proscar / Propecia Class Action Certified By Justice In British Columbia
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - A British Columbia judge on March 28 certified a class of provincial men who took either Proscar or Propecia and experienced reduced libido and erectile dysfunction,...
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Vioxx MDL Judge Allows All Expert Testimony About Venous Blood Clots
NEW ORLEANS - The Louisiana federal judge overseeing the Vioxx multidistrict litigation on April 9 denied motions by the plaintiffs and defendant Merck & Co. Inc. to exclude the testimony of...
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Shoulder Prosthesis Claims Not Federally Preempted, Idaho Federal Judge Says
BOISE, Idaho - An Idaho federal judge on March 28 ruled that a plaintiff's claims involving a Smith & Nephew Inc. shoulder prosthesis are not preempted by federal law (L. Wayne Elliott, et al. v....
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Summary Judgment Denied, Plaintiff Experts Survive In Talc/Ovarian Cancer Case
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A South Dakota federal judge on April 12 denied summary judgment to Johnson & Johnson in a case in which a plaintiff alleges that she developed ovarian cancer caused by the...
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Pelvic Mesh MDL Plaintiffs Want Cross-Use Of Discovery Approved By Court
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Plaintiffs in four pelvic mesh multidistrict litigations on April 12 asked the judge presiding over all four MDLs to modify the court's protective order and allow cross-utilization...
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Plaintiff Leadership Named For Meningitis Outbreak MDL
BOSTON - The Massachusetts judge presiding over the meningitis outbreak multidistrict litigation on April 9 appointed plaintiff leadership (In Re: New England Compounding Pharmacy, Inc., Products...
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