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California State Jury Awards $6.5M In 1st Actos Bladder Cancer Case To Go To...
LOS ANGELES - A California state court jury on April 26 awarded $6.5 million in the first Actos bladder cancer case to go to trial, according to the parties (Jack Cooper v. Takeda Pharmaceuticals...
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Avandia MDL Court Remands 2 3rd-Party-Payer Cases To Pa. State Court For Now
PHILADELPHIA - Two days after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Humana Health Plan Inc. to sue Avandia maker GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK) for double damages under the Medicare Secondary Payer Act, a...
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Avandia MDL Judge Won't Order Release Of Medicare Advantage Lien Hold-Back Funds
PHILADELPHIA - The Pennsylvania federal judge overseeing the Avandia multidistrict litigation on April 22 denied a motion by two plaintiff law firms to order Medicare Advantage insurers to assert liens...
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4 Drug Makers Support MDL For Januvia, Byetta, Victoza, Citing Cross-Drug Use
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Four drug makers on April 29 told a federal judicial panel they support centralization of all federal cases in which plaintiffs allege that the diabetes drug Januvia, Janumet, Byetta...
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Merck Wins Defense Verdict In 1st Fosamax Femur Case To Go To Verdict
TRENTON, N.J. - A New Jersey federal jury on April 29 quickly found that a plaintiff did not prove that she suffered an atypical femur fracture, resulting in a defense verdict for Merck Sharp &...
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Ore. Federal Judge Says N.J. Punitives Law Applies In Zometa Jaw Injury Case
PORTLAND, Ore. - An Oregon woman who claims that Zometa caused her jaw injury cannot claim punitive damages against defendant Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. because they are prohibited by New Jersey...
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2nd DePuy ASR Hip Trial Ends In Defense Verdict For Johnson & Johnson
CHICAGO - An Illinois state court jury on April 16 found in favor of DePuy Orthopedics Inc. in the second ASR XL metal-on-metal hip lawsuit to go to trial (Carol Strum v. DePuy Orthopaedics Inc., et...
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Warranty Claims Out, Punitives Stay In Metal-On-Metal Hip Lawsuit Against Wright
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - An Iowa federal judge on April 22 dismissed warranty claims in a Wright Medical Technology Inc. metal-on-metal hip case, but allowed the plaintiff's claims of strict liability,...
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New Jersey NuvaRing Judge Grants Summary Judgment In 7 Bellwether Cases
HACKENSACK, N.J. - A New Jersey judge presiding over the state's centralized NuvaRing blood clot litigation on April 18 granted summary judgment in all remaining cases in the first group of bellwether...
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Iowa Appeals Court Denies Exceptions To Mensing's Generic Drug Preemption
DES MOINES, Iowa - An Iowa state appeals court on April 24 said that the U.S. Supreme Court's generic drug preemption ruling does not allow a claim against a metoclopramide manufacturer for failing to...
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CareFusion Announces Nonprosecution Pact, $41M Settlement Of Federal Probe
SAN DIEGO - CareFusion Corp. on April 25 announced that it will enter into a nonprosecution agreement and pay $41 million to settle a federal investigation into the sales and marketing of its...
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United States Sues 'Repeat Offender' Novartis For Kickback Scheme, Medicare...
NEW YORK - Calling Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. (NPC) a "repeat offender," a U.S. attorney on April 23 filed a False Claims Act and kickback lawsuit in New York federal court, alleging that the...
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Government Sues Novartis, This Time For Kickbacks To Doctors For 3 Drugs
NEW YORK - Questioning whether Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. is "getting the message," the New York U.S. attorney on April 26 filed his second False Claims Act complaint against the drug manufacturer...
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Judge Denies Dismissal Of Drug Company-On-Company False Claims Act Lawsuit
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A California federal judge on April 19 ruled that a generic drug manufacturer adequately pleaded its False Claims Act allegations that Sanofi-Aventis S.A. overcharged federal health...
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Michigan Grand Jury To Probe Possible Crimes In Fungal Meningitis Outbreak
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - A Michigan appeals court on April 19 granted a petition by the state attorney general for a four-county grand jury to investigate whether crimes were committed during the...
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NECC-Related Fungal Meningitis Infections Might Be Latent, CDC Says
BOSTON - Cases of fungal meningitis infections associated with contaminated compound steroids are showing up long after doctors expected the outbreak to peak, according to a report published April 24...
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FDA Makes Plan B One-Step Available To 15-Year-Olds Without A Prescription
WASHINGTON, D.C. - While the U.S. Justice Department decides how to respond to a judge's order 20 days earlier to make the Plan B emergency contraceptive available to all women without a prescription,...
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Medtronic Heart Valve Claim Survives Preemption Of Manufacturing Defect Claim
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - In an opinion posted April 19, a New York state court judge said a plaintiff's claim of design defect in a Medtronic heart valve is preempted by federal law, but not so his claims...
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MDL Sought By Plaintiffs Claiming Lipitor Cholesterol Drug Caused Their Diabetes
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Five plaintiffs on April 26 moved to create a multidistrict litigation for federal lawsuits in which plaintiffs claim that Pfizer Inc.'s Lipitor cholesterol drug caused them to...
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Judge: Plaintiffs In Bard Vena Cava Filter Class Action Belong In Federal Court
PHILADELPHIA - A Pennsylvania federal judge on April 26 said that state plaintiffs who filed a state court medical monitoring class action against C.R. Bard Inc. for allegedly defective inferior vena...
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