The FDA has restricted sales of Essure birth control devices, according to the New York Times and other news sources. Sales of the contraceptive implant will now be limited to medical providers who agree to [...]
On January 23, 2018, City of Philadelphia officials decided to move forward with plans to establish Philadelphia Opioid Safe Injection Sites. Safe injection sites for users of heroin, fentanyl-laced drugs, and other street opioids are [...]
On December 5, 2017, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) formed an Opioid MDL, sending 180+ federal opioid cases to the Northern District of Ohio. The transferred cases were brought by governmental entities, such [...]
On Tuesday, December 5, 2017, a Philadelphia jury awarded plaintiff Lynn Hartman nearly $28 million after finding that drug makers Johnson & Johnson and Bayer AG had provided inadequate warnings of the bleeding dangers associated [...]
In closing arguments made December 1, 2017, counsel for plaintiff urged a jury to find that inadequate Xarelto warnings left the plaintiff with serious internal bleeding. Plaintiffs have argued that Janssen Pharmaceuticals and Bayer Healthcare [...]
For more than two decades, attorney Rosemary Pinto has fought for the rights of plaintiffs injured by dangerous pharmaceuticals. The Feldman & Pinto co-founder has recently expanded her fight to include the opioid epidemic, a [...]
Testimony by former FDA commissioner David Kessler favored the plaintiff in a Philadelphia state court Xarelto trial that commenced November 6, 2017. On November 14, Kessler opined that the warning labels for the blood thinner [...]
Feldman & Pinto’s personal injury lawyers co-represent plaintiffs in a Xarelto mass tort trial that commenced in Philadelphia state court on November 6, 2017. Xarelto is a dangerous anticoagulant (blood thinner), manufactured by Bayer and marketed [...]
NOTE: Feldman & Pinto no longer handles cases related to injuries caused by Watchman devices. Studies conducted before and after FDA approval of Boston Scientific's anti-stroke device show that Watchman stroke devices can cause serious [...]
Research conducted in 2016 has revealed possible causes of IVC Filter breakage. Surgeons insert IVC Filters (small metal medical devices) in a vein called the inferior vena cava to prevent pulmonary embolisms (life-threatening blood clots [...]
Ethicon / Johnson & Johnson issued an urgent field safety notice in 2016, advising of a worldwide recall of its Ethicon Physiomesh™ Flexible Composite Mesh. Ethicon Physiomesh™ Flexible Composite Mesh is a medical device employed [...]
On November 7, 2016, Johnson & Johnson (J&J), the maker of the diabetes drug, Invokana, lost a motion to have an Invokana lawsuit moved from Pennsylvania state court to another jurisdiction. A number of Invokana [...]
According to a September 28, 2016, article in The Legal Intelligencer (titled Counsel Aims to Save Risperdal Cases, Challenging Cutoff Date), Judge Arnold New has issued a statute of limitations ruling in Risperdal drug injury [...]
Laura Feldman (Feldman & Pinto) and other Plaintiffs' Attorneys File Petition to Consolidate Invokana Drug Injury Actions According to a recent article in the Legal Intelligencer (titled Invokana Plaintiffs Seek to Consolidate Litigation), Attorney Laura [...]
According to an August 2016 article in the medical journal Hepatology, liver cirrhosis patients who use Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) drugs are at greater risk of: an accumulation of abdominal fluid (ascites), and a serious [...]
A study reported in May 2016 links talcum powder with ovarian cancer in African American women. Talcum powder products such as Johnson's Baby Powder and Shower to Shower made by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) have [...]
Women across the country are filing Essure lawsuits against Bayer, seeking damages for personal injuries caused by the birth control medical device. (In 2013, Bayer purchased Conceptus, the original maker of Essure.) Essure is a [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a statement on May 12, 2016, advising doctors to stop prescribing fluoroquinolone antibiotics for certain infections that can be treated with less harmful medications. According to an [...]