A federal jury has awarded Karen Bartlett $21 million for serious injuries she sustained from taking Sulindac, an anti-inflammatory medication. The defendant of this dangerous drug lawsuit is Mutual Pharmaceutical Co. Bartlett began taking the drug in January 2005 for shoulder pain. She was hospita ...

I knew, of course, that colorectal cancer is a killer, and that a colonoscopy can detect any problem while the problem is still eminently curable. So getting ’scoped as soon as you turn 50 should be a no-brainer. I postponed mine for two years because (a) I feared that the preparation—emptying my ...

Getting a hip replacement once is bad enough, but for many people who'd received implants from Johnson and Johnson once was not enough. The need for replacement of the replacements prompted Johnson & Johnson to recall two types of implant devices: ASR XL acetabular system, a hip socket used in a t ...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael L. Stern has ordered that Rysher Entertainment LLC must pay Don Johnson Productions approximately $28.5 million in pre-judgment interest. In addition to a jury’s $23.2 million verdict from July, the total judgment amounts to...

Patients who have undergone hip replacement surgery using DePuy hip implants should know that DePuy Orthopaedics has recalled their ASR hip implants. According to research by a British agency, 1 out of every 8 people who had ASR implants needed to have their surgery corrected within 5 years. This ...

Our Illinois class action attorneys recently noted a Seventh Circuit decision ending a class-action case in the difficult realm of securities fraud. In Re Guidant Corporation, No. 08-2429 (7th Cir. Oct. 21, 2009), is a securities class action stemming from allegedly misleading statements Guidant C ...

Picture a bloated Marlon Brando wringing his hands while moaning, the horror the horror, and you have just encapsulated the 8th Districts body of work last week, at least if you work the defense side of the aisle.  Of the 16 criminal cases last week, only two tossed even a crumb in the direction of ...

After Cook County denied Johnson’s request to rezone two parcels of property for commercial use, Johnson brought a declaratory judgment action claiming that his rezoning application was automatically approved because the County did not state the reasons for denying his request in writing as required ...

Kim Chandler, The Birmingham News, Don Siegelman and Richard Scrushy ask court to dismiss honest services fraud charges against them; Bob Johnson (AP), Tuscaloosa News.com, Siegelman asks appeals court to dismiss charges; Margaret Cronin,Bloomberg, HealthSouth's Scrushy Loses His Bid for...

As reported by Bloomberg News, Johnson & Johnson has been sued by a California construction worker over a hip-replacement device that is believed to be defective. Johnson & Johnson stopped selling the artificial hip last month after defect reports surfaced.  According to the lawsuit, DePuy O ...