29 results

• Lawyers To Provide Information About Suboxone Dental Injury Records, Product Identification in Their Possession

  September 26, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  Judge presiding over all Suboxone tooth decay lawsuits expects lawyers to report next week on the status of their investigations into thousands of claims filed on a bundled complaint in June 2024.

• Representative Sample of Suboxone Injury Cases To Be Identified Through Bellwether Process in MDL

  September 3, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  Lawyers involved in Suboxone tooth decay lawsuits will meet with the a federal judge this week, and discuss plans to select a representative group of injury claims that will go through case-specific discovery in preparation for a series of early test trials.

• Suboxone Film Tooth Decay Problems Could Have Been Avoided With Safer Alternative Design, Plaintiffs Argue

  August 26, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  Plaintiffs are pushing back against a recent motion to dismiss lawsuits over Suboxone film tooth decay problems, pointing to numerous reports of issues submitted in medical journals and to the FDA long before the agency required the company to update the safety warnings on the label.

• Indivior Files Motion to Dismiss Suboxone Failure to Warn Lawsuits Based on Federal Preemption

  July 31, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  Indivior has filed a motion to dismiss Suboxone lawsuits, claiming that allegations of failure to warn and design defect are preempted by federal laws that would protect the company from tooth decay injury claims.

• Information About Suboxone Dental Claims To Be Exchanged By Parties in MDL

  July 22, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  A federal judge has ordered parties involved in Suboxone dental decay lawsuits to submit proposals for exchanging information that will guide the selection of representative bellwether claims for early test trials.

• Lawyers “Optimistic” Suboxone Tolling Agreement Will Be Reached For Tooth Decay Lawsuits

  July 3, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  Plaintiffs and defendants involved in Suboxone tooth decay lawsuits say they are close to a deal that would allow the filing of federal complaints after some state statue of limitation laws would have disqualified plaintiffs from filing.

• Suboxone MDL Judge Rejects Drug Makers’ Request for Phased Discovery in Tooth Decay Lawsuits

  June 25, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  As a result of the order, lawsuits over Suboxone tooth decay will move forward with a standard discovery process, preparing a small group of representative cases for early test trials in the federal MDL.

• Plaintiffs Oppose Phased Discovery Over Suboxone Tooth Decay Risks in MDL

  May 28, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  Plaintiffs say a federal judge should not waste time on a phased discovery plan requiring them to first prove Suboxone strips can cause tooth decay, saying the science is obvious and such a plan could delay resolution of hundreds of product liability lawsuits.

• Indivior Seeks To Prioritize Link Between Suboxone and Tooth Decay in Early Discovery

  April 24, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  Defendants have asked a federal judge to force plaintiffs in Suboxone tooth decay lawsuits to first prove that the film strips can cause tooth decay injuries as the first phase of discovery proceedings.