Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 23 Oct 2014
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (J.P.M.L.) has ordered the centralization of 27 actions alleging defects in Cook Medical's inferior…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 14 Aug 2014
Citing a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision reaffirming a long-standing bar on strict liability claims for prescription drugs under the…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 19 Jun 2014
A North Carolina federal court has dismissed an unfair and deceptive trade practices lawsuit against medical device maker Anulex Technologies, Inc…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 8 May 2014
Advocacy organization Public Citizen has sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), seeking a court order requiring the agency to issue a…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 6 Feb 2014
San Diego-based Valor Medical, Inc., a biomedical device manufacturer, and four of its employees have reportedly pleaded guilty to counts of failing…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 16 Jan 2014
While the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a $225,000 jury award to the estate of a woman who developed osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ)…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 27 Nov 2013
Rejecting the defendant's claim that a new trial should have been ordered when the jury initially returned an inconsistent verdict, a federal court…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 27 Jun 2013
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, has determined that state-law design-defect claims that "turn on" the adequacy of a generic drug's warnings…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 11 Apr 2013
Because a virtually identical class action pending before a state court is near settlement, a federal court in California has agreed, in the interest…
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP | USA | 14 Mar 2013
A federal court in New Jersey has imposed an $18-million criminal penalty on Par Pharmaceutical Cos., which entered a guilty plea to one charge of…