More than 16,000 additional heartburn drug lawsuits may be filed in the coming weeks as a tolling agreement suspending lawsuit filing deadlines comes to a close.…
Plaintiffs and defendants have filed proposed bellwether case selection plans for litigation over heartburn drug side effects.…
The federal judge overseeing all heartburn drug kidney lawsuits has called for a plan to select bellwether cases by the end of the year, and said the first case will go to trial in September 2020.…
A Prilosec lawsuit indicates that the heartburn drug’s side effects resulted in kidney disease and death for a woman’s husband.…
The makers of Nexium, Prilosec, and other heartburn drugs linked to kidney injuries have offered to suspend statute of limitations for filing of cases if plaintiffs meet certain conditions.…
The first bellwether trial for heartburn drug lawsuits filed over kidney injuries caused by Nexium, Prilosec, Prevacid and other proton pump inhibitors will begin in September 2020.…
A proposed order seeks to coordinate state and federal heartburn drug lawsuits over kidney injury claims for pretrial proceedings.…
Parties involved in heartburn drug kidney injury lawsuits have tentatively agreed that the first trial should begin in May 2020.…
A judge has refused to split heartburn drug kidney injury lawsuits into two phases, siding with plaintiffs on pushing the litigation toward bellwether trials.…
Plaintiffs are calling for the first Nexium, Prilosec and Prevacid bellwether cases over claims of kidney failure and kidney damage to begin in February 2020, while defendants are calling for bifurcated proceedings that would address issues of general causation and preemption before any cases are prepared for trial.…
