When an individual is suffering from a serious medical condition, they often turn to their medical provider to seek treatment. One of the most common forms of treatment is medication. While there are countless medications that work for patients, ther ...
Dion G. Rassias, Esquire of The Beasley Firm, LLC recently filed Complaints on behalf of Plumbers’ Local Union No. 690 Health Plan (“Local 690”) and the Delaware Valley Health Care Coalition (“DVHCC”) seeking over $1 billion in damages from ...
For more than a year now, our firm has been entrenched in litigation against the manufacturers of several “incretin mimetic” diabetes drugs, including Januvia, Janumet, Victoza, Byetta, and Onglyza, which, we allege, cause pancreatic cancer. No t ...
In early February, the media exploded with reports that the FDA was investigating(1) whether low-testosterone therapies like Axiron, Androgel, Testim, and Fortesta might be tied with an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes. Yet, as the FD ...
As part of the pancreatic cancer litigation that has been taking up a lot of my time, I’ve spent a lot of my time lately thinking about diabetes in general. Diabetics know all too well the merry-go-round they can end up on as doctors switch them fr ...
Two weeks ago, a tentative settlement agreement was announced in the litigation over the defective DePuy ASR hip implants. The official website is here. It’s a claims process (like what was used to resolve the Vioxx and BP Oil Spill cases ...
There’s an old saying that, “two is a coincidence, three is a pattern.” Last week, the fentanyl pain patch (technically the “DURAGESIC® fentanyl transdermal system”) came up three times for me: First, my office received a call from so ...
Extra Strength Tylenol, one of the most aggressively-marketed consumer products in the country, has been making news again lately. The media focus has been on how researchers built on previous findings that “acetaminophen reduced neural r ...
We see the same tragic situation several times a year: a patient, often a young person in their twenties or thirties, goes to their primary care physician with the signs and symptoms of “GERD,” or gastroesophageal reflux disease. They have persis ...
Merely a week ago I wrote about what an $11.1 million jury verdict in a vaginal mesh lawsuit in New Jersey meant for other women with those meshes and involved in the nationwide litigation. Yesterday came big news in another litigation we a ...
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