Lawyers will present oral arguments before a panel of judges on October 1 on whether all lawsuits stemming from a deadly Amtrak train derailment earlier this year should be consolidated before one judge for pretrial proceedings.…
A jury in Phialdelphia has returned a defense verdict in the second state trial over Zoloft birth defects.…
An Amtrak train was going more than 100 mph when it derailed this week, investigators say, indicating that the speeds were more than double the track’s speed limit.…
The number of medical malpractice lawsuits filed in Pennsylvania have dropped more than 45% over the last decade, since new restrictions were enacted that require claims to meet merit standards and limit where cases can be filed. …
A number of lawyers throughout the United States are beginning to investigate potential Zoloft lawsuits and preparing to file cases on behalf of children born with birth defects or malformations after being exposed to the SSRI antidepressant when the mother was prescribed the drug during pregnancy.…
A Philadelphia jury has awarded $10 million to the family of a 12-year-old girl who suffered a debilitating skin reaction known as Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS) from Children’s Motrin. …
A Philadelphia jury is considering whether Johnson & Johnson should have taken stronger steps to warn parents and doctors that Children’s Motrin and Children’s Tylenol could cause Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), a rare and potentially lethal skin reaction that permanently disfigured a young girl. …
Jury selection was scheduled to begin on Monday for an Avandia lawsuit filed over a fatal heart attack allegedly caused by the diabetes drug. However, the federal judge presiding over the case announced late in the day that the case has been continued until next Monday. …
The federal government and a number of states have decided to intervene in a whistleblower lawsuit that accuses Pfizer’s Wyeth unit of giving kickbacks to doctors to encourage them to prescribe Rapamune, as well as promoting the organ transplant drug for off-label uses. …
The first trial of lawsuits over a cancer cluster in McCullom Lake, Illinois began this week in Philadelphia, after a number of residents of the small town developed brain tumors that were allegedly caused by a chemical plume in the groundwater. …
