A Nevada jury hit two health insurance companies with half a billion dollars in punitive damages following trial in a lawsuit brought by two women who contracted hepatitis C due to unsafe injection practices used at a Las Vegas area endoscopy clinic. …
Teva Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay $250 million to settle about 80 Propofol lawsuits stemming from a hepatitis C outbreak at Las Vegas endoscopy clinics. …
Teva Pharmaceuticals and Baxter International have been hit with a massive punitive damages award for a third time as a result of their role in causing a hepatitis C outbreak that occurred after two Las Vegas endoscopy clinics reused oversized vials of propofol sold by the drug makers. …
Update 10/11/2011: The jury has returned a $162.5 million punitive damages verdict against the defendants, finding that they negligently distributed oversized vials of propofol, which may have been instrumental in the 2008 Hepatitis C outbreak. …
A global recall of Liposyn and Propofol made by Hospira, Inc. has been expanded to include 28 additional lots, due to the possibility that the medications may be contaminated with stainless steel particles. …
In what is believed to be the largest punitive damages award in Nevada history, a jury last week ordered two pharmaceutical companies to pay $500 million to a plaintiff who contracted hepatitis C at a Las Vegas clinic that was found to be reusing medicine vials and dirty needles. …
Teva Pharmaceuticals failed to have proper quality control measures in place to prevent bacterial contamination from entering batches of their generic version of the anesthetic propofol, leading to a recall last year after at least 40 people became ill, according to federal inspectors. …
Hospira, Inc. has issued a recall for 85 lots of Liposyn, an intravenous nutritional supplement, and 73 lots of the sedative Propofal, as some of the containers may contain particulate matter that entered the drug from stainless steel equipment used during the manufacturing process. The particulate matter could cause a serious and potentially life-threatening injury, including a stroke, respiratory failure, kidney failure, liver failure, heart attack or death.…
More than 57,000 vials of the anesthetic propofol, a generic version of Diprivan, have been recalled after testing confirmed that two lots of the medication manufactured by Teva Pharmaceuticals may be tainted. At least 40 people have reportedly been sickened by a bacterial contaminant that got into the drug.…
