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On August 15th, 2012 the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection issued a burn ban suspending all residential burn permits, forest management, hazard abatement, and other industrial-type permitted burning. In January 2011, FairWarning reported that more than 2,000 children ages five and under suffered burn injuries from fireplace glass from 1999 to 2009, according to a federal estimate. On May 2nd 2011 a class action suit was filed (case no. 3:11-cv-02146-EDL) in federal...
According to court documents, on June 29th, 2012 a South Carolina woman, Selma Wilson, filed a lawsuit in New Jersey District Court (case no. 3:2012cv04014) alleging she suffered femur fracture from her use of Fosamax. Fosamax, manufactured by Merck, belongs to the class of drugs known as bisphosphonates. It was approved by the FDA in 1995 and developed to treat post-menopausal osteoporosis and Paget's disease of bone. A study published online in May 2012, by the Archives of Internal...
According to court documents, on May 8th, 2012, Michael Gregory and his wife Misty filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania Eastern District Court (case no. 2:2012cv02515) alleging he has suffered several side effects, including sexual dysfunction, since taking Propecia, even though he has stopped its use. Propecia is a pill, manufactured by Merck, for use in males only and indicated for the treatment of male pattern hair loss. It was approved by the FDA in 1997. On May 31st, 2012 the lawsuit was...
On August 7th, 2012 the Wall Street Journal reported that Wright Medical received US Attorney’s subpoena seeking documents on its Profemur Hip Implants. The Wright Medical Profemur Total Hip System is a line of hip replacement implants designed and manufactured by Wright Medical Technology. According to court documents, on April 2nd, 2012, a Madison County woman, Mary Bond, filed a lawsuit in Madison County Circuit Court (case no. 12-L-410) alleging that her Wright Profemur Hip...
According to court documents, on June 8th, 2012, lead plaintiff Jasmine Arrowood and 26 others filed a lawsuit in St. Clair County Circuit Court (case no. 12-L-312) alleging their children suffered from various birth defects caused by the use of Depakote during pregnancy. Depakote is a drug, manufactured by Abbott Laboratories, most commonly prescribed for psychiatric conditions like manic depressive disorder (bipolar disorder) and to prevent migraine headaches. The New England Journal of...
According to court documents, on July 9th, 2012, a carate practitioner, Michael S. Bishal filed a lawsuit in North Carolina Eastern District Court (case no. 2:2012cv00043) alleging he suffered permanent pain and damage from his Zimmer Durom Cup. The Zimmer Durom Cup is an artificial hip component widely used in hip replacement surgeries in the US since 2006. This new lawsuit may be eligible to join the multidistrict litigation (MDL 2158) in the District of New Jersey, where the products...
On July 17th, 2012, the US FDA approved the new diet pill Qsymia by Vivus Inc. Qsymia is a combination of two FDA-approved drugs, phentermine and topiramate, in an extended-release formulation. Phentermine was one-half of the popular Wyeth obesity drug Fen Phen which was withdrawn from the market in 1997; it was linked with heart valve damage and primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH). Now, AttorneyOne.com, a recognized authority on law, can provide helpful, proven advice and simple...
As Bloomberg reported on June 30th 2012, a New Jersey jury ruled that Hoffman-LaRoche must pay $18 million in damages to two former Accutane users, Kathleen Rossitto and Riley Wilkinson (case no. ATL-l-7481-10-MT and ATL-L-1311-08-MT). Accutane (isotretinoin), manufactured by Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc., is a popular acne medication introduced in 1982. In 2009, as the number of lawsuits against Hoffman-LaRoche kept increasing, Accutane was pulled from the US market. Now, AttorneyOne.com, a...
As Businessweek reported on July 31st, 2012, Bayer said settlements of U.S. lawsuits over claims that its Yasmin line of birth-control pills caused blood clots in women have increased to more than $402 million. Yasmin, which was approved by the FDA in 2001, and Yaz, which was approved in 2006, are oral contraceptives that combine estrogen and a fourth generation progestin, drospirenone, to prevent pregnancy. According to court documents, on July 10th, 2012, Kristina and Keith Stone filed a...
According to court documents, on July 11th, 2012, a Michigan woman, Glennie Faulkner, filed a lawsuit in Michigan Eastern District Court (case no. 2:2012cv13048) alleging she had to undergo a revision surgery after the failure of her DePuy Pinnacle hip implant. DePuy Orthopeadics, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, is facing more than 3,500 lawsuits alleging that its ASR hip replacement (multidistrict litigation MDL 2197) and 900 lawsuits alleging that the metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip...
