On December 21, 2017, parties in the lawsuits against Eli Lilly alleging heart attacks and strokes from testosterone products informed Illinois Federal MDL judge, Matthew F. Kennelly, that they had reached a global settlement in all cases filed against the pharmaceutical company in the multidistrict litigation over testosterone replacement therapy products. The deal comes just before...
On October 5, 2017, a Chicago jury ordered AbbVie, Inc. to pay more than $140 million to a Tennessee man, Jeffrey Konrad, who alleged that the Company misrepresented the risks of his testosterone replacement drug, AndroGel prescribed for Low-T, causing him to suffer a heart attack. This case is one of many in the testosterone...
On July 24, 2017, a Chicago jury found in favor of claimant Jesse Mitchell in the second, much-anticipated AndroGel bellwether trial that started on July 5 in the testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) multidistrict litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Jesse Mitchell, et al. v. AbbVie, Inc., No. 14-9178, N.D....
Recently, the second, much-anticipated AndroGel bellwether trial started on July 5 in the testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) multidistrict litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Jesse Mitchell, et al. v. AbbVie, Inc., No. 14-9178, N.D. Ill.). This claim is one of thousands filed by men who suffered serious side effects...