CINCINNATI — (Mealey’s) The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 27 affirmed dismissal of 67 of 68 Darvon/Darvocet/ propoxyphene multidistrict litigation cases, finding that the plaintiffs either failed to properly plead their claims... Read More

(Mealey's) Howmedica Osteonics Corp. has set aside at least $1.42 billion to pay patients who had to undergo revision surgery as a result of corrosion or fretting of Stryker metal-on-metal Rejuvenate Modular-Neck and ABG II Modular-Neck hip implants... Read More

NEW YORK - (Mealey's) The Zyprexa multidistrict litigation court properly enjoined an Alaska attorney and mental health advocate from obtaining and disseminating confidential discovery documents produced by Eli Lilly and Co., a panel of the Second... Read More

RICHMOND, Va. — (Mealey’s) The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 2 affirmed a directed defense verdict last year in the first Ethicon pelvic mesh multidistrict litigation trial ( Carolyn Lewis, et al. v. Johnson & Johnson,... Read More

JONESBORO, Ark. - (Mealey's) An Arkansas federal jury on Oct. 19 said a plaintiff did not prove that Wyeth inadequately warned her and her doctor that the hormone replacement therapy drug Prempro could cause breast cancer ( In re: Prempro Products... Read More

BOSTON - (Mealey's) The Massachusetts federal judge overseeing the Neurontin multidistrict litigation on Dec. 10 granted summary judgment against all but two class action plaintiffs after finding no direct evidence that Pfizer Inc.'s off-label... Read More

MIAMI — (Mealey’s) A federal jury in Florida on Nov. 13 awarded four women a total of $26.7 million in a multidistrict litigation trial involving Boston Scientific Corp.’s Pinnacle Pelvic Floor Repair Kit pelvic mesh repair device (... Read More

NEW YORK - (Mealey's) A jury returned an $8 million compensatory damages verdict against Merck & Co. Inc. on June 25 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in the retrial of the first Fosamax multidistrict litigation... Read More

NEW YORK -- (Mealey's) The New York federal judge overseeing the Fosamax multidistrict litigation on Oct. 4 sua sponte found that an $8 million verdict in a bellwether trial is excessive and ordered a remittitur of the verdict to $1.5 million unless... Read More

LAFAYETTE, La. — (Mealey’s) Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and Eli Lilly and Co. will not get a new trial in the first Actos bladder cancer multidistrict litigation bellwether case, but a Louisiana federal judge on Oct. 27 reduced the $9 billion... Read More

MIAMI — (Mealey’s) U.S. Bank NA on July 24 agreed to pay $55 million to exit a multidistrict litigation in which class members allege that several banks manipulated the order of debit card transactions to maximize checking account overdraft... Read More

CLEVELAND - (Mealey's) The judge presiding over the consolidated welding fume products liability litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio today issued a memorandum and order establishing a Welding Fume MDL Resolution... Read More

PHILADELPHIA — (Mealey’s) Strict liability design defect claims involving generic versions of the osteoporosis drug Fosamax are preempted by federal law despite plaintiffs’ attempts to narrow U.S. Supreme Court case law, a panel of the... Read More

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - (Mealey's) The Zyprexa multidistrict litigation judge on Jan. 12 approved a $4.5 million settlement between Eli Lilly and Co. and six third-party payers who had their Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) class... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — (Mealey’s) A dismissal of a lawsuit by a trial court and a statement that the case was terminated render the case appealable, Thomas C. Goldstein of Goldstein & Russell in Bethesda, Md., argued Dec. 9 before the U.S... Read More