Categories: Class action lawsuit
A proposed nationwide settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit involving certain Johnson & Johnson Bedtime Bath Products. Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $5 million to settle accusations that the company falsely advertised its baby bedtime products as “clinically proven” to help babies sleep better. The Covered Products include JOHNSON’S® BEDTIME®...
Categories: Your Legal Rights
On January 1, 2017, Ohio’s subrogation law (often referred to as the “Fair Share” law) went into effect in its entirety and now applies to health insurance policies. (The law was originally enacted and became effective in 2015, and was reenacted in 2016.) “Subrogation” frequently arises in the context of insurance claims. For example, in...
Categories: Recalls
On January 13, 2017, Physio-Control, a provider of professional emergency medical response solutions, announced a voluntary field action for the LIFEPAK 1000 defibrillator due to reported instances where the device has shut down unexpectedly during patient treatment. The company admits that it has received 34 reports where customers have attempted to use their LIFEPAK 1000...
Categories: Hip Implant Recall
On August 29, 2016, Stryker Corporation issued an urgent medical device recall related to its Stryker LFIT Anatomic CoCr V40 series of femoral heads due to “higher than expected complaints of taper lock failure.” These femoral heads are used in a number of the company’s modular hip replacement systems (used in hip replacement procedures) such...
Categories: Takata Air Bag Deadly Defect
On Tuesday, Honda announced that it was recalling an additional 772,000 Honda & Acura vehicles in the U.S. for potentially defective and deadly air bag inflators made by the Japanese supplier, Takata Corp. (ABC news report.) More than 100 million vehicles with these airbags involving 17 automakers have been recalled worldwide, including 69 million in...
Categories: Hernia Mesh Litigation
Lawsuits have been filed and many more are expected to be filed resulting from injuries alleged to be caused by Physiomesh, sold by Ethicon, Inc./Johnson & Johnson, and C-Qur, sold by Atrium Medical Corporation. The lawsuits alleged that these hernia mesh products are defective and that Ethicon and Atrium failed to warn patients and their...
Categories: Taxotere Hair Loss Litigation
On November 17, 2016, the Judge handling the Taxotere (Docetaxel) Products Liability Litigation (MDL 2740) issued Pretrial Order No. 2 appointing counsel as Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel, Defendants’ Liaison Counsel and to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee. All appointments are for a 1 year term beginning immediately until January 1, 2018. Applications for the subsequent term must be...
Categories: Public Safety and Health Tips
Happy Thanksgiving from Borgess Law! To keep you and all of your loved ones safe and healthy this Thanksgiving, we wanted to share specific holiday safety tips provided by various government agencies in charge of public health and safety. Travel Smart and Safe. Millions of people will travel to visit loved ones for the Thanksgiving...
Categories: Talc Cancer Lawsuits
Yesterday, a St. Louis jury awarded a California woman, Deborah Giannecchini, $70.075 million in her lawsuit alleging that years of using Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder caused her cancer. Specially, the lawsuit, along with numerous others filed across the country, allege that Johnson & Johnson knew or should have known that perineal use of its...
Categories: Recalls
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently announced that Best Buy Co., Inc., of Richfield, Minnesota has agreed to pay a $3.8 million civil penalty for allegedly distributing and selling about 600 previously recalled consumer products in violation of Federal law. (To read the settlement agreement, click here.) The agreement settles charges that Best...
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