Category: Defective Drugs

As one of the many law firms heavily invested in the nationwide transvaginal mesh and bladder sling litigation, we pay close attention to any legal developments that might help our clients, and this week a New Jersey jury ordered Johnson and Johnson ...

A $63 million verdict awarded by a jury earlier this week in Maine shows the lengths to which drug companies will go to make a profit. It’s well known that NSAID pain relievers like Motrin (ibuprofen) can cause Stevens-Johnson Syndrome or ...

When the DePuy hip implants were recalled back in August 2010, there was a huge amount of fanfare. By that point, the New York Times had already published two articles about the numerous problems with the hips, and lawsuits had started to mount. In c ...

Research published by the American Diabetes Association shows that non-critically ill patients who develop hyperglycemia or a high blood sugar after receiving total parental nutrition (TPN) or hyperalimentation are more likely to die in the ...

[Update: This post was originally written in November 2012. A year later, in November 2013, a partial settlement was announced. The official website is here. If you had a lawyer as of November 2013, don’t try to fire them just to avoid pa ...

Since 1958, The Beasley Firm has fought for injured patients and consumers, recovering over $2 billion for our clients through hundreds of multi-million dollar settlements and jury verdicts. If you or a loved one suffered a heart attack or other card ...

Eddie C. Lovelace, a Kentucky judge, was still on the bench into his late 70s, despite suffering from severe neck pain due to a car accident. Like many other patients in chronic pain, Judge Lovelace sought epidural spinal injections for pain relief. ...

The medical device manufacturer Stryker Corporation is expanding its recall of the Neptune waste-management operating room (OR) products. Stryker company first voluntarily recalled the Neptune 1 in June of 2012 after two people were seriously injured ...

Cephalopelvic disproportion (CPD) is when your baby’s head or body part is too large to fit through your pelvis or birth canal during labor. It has also been referred to as a “failure to progress” or “failure to descend” during labor. With ...

Warfarin-induced skin necrosis (WISN), Coumadin-induced skin necrosis (CISN), Anticoagulant-induced skin necrosis or warfarin dermal gangrene is a condition in where there is skin and tissue death or necrosis due to a protein C deficiency after being ...