Dinesh Thakur, a former employee of Ranbaxy, will receive $48.6 million for his role as the lead whistleblower in the case against the India-based generic-drug company. The company pleaded guilty to seven counts of “selling adultered drugs with the intent to defraud, failing to report that its drugs didn’t meet…
The Indian generic-drug company, Ranbaxy has pleaded guilty to seven criminal charges after it fraudulently manufactured and sold adultered generic drugs in the United States and throughout the global pharmaceutical market. The company was also charged with making false statements to government officials, inventing drug test data, as well as…
Ranbaxy USA Inc., the American subsidiary of Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, an Indian generic pharmaceutical maker, has agreed to pay $500 million to settle fines related to claims that it made false statements to the FDA about its manufacturing practices abroad and sold substandard medications and pay penalties. The US Justice…
According to a new study by Russian scientists, younger women with less serious cases of pelvic organ prolapse and those who had hysterectomies appear to be more at risk of experiencing post-surgical complications after they are implanted with a vaginal mesh device than other patients. The scientists presented their findings…
Drug-Induced Stevens – Johnson Syndrome (SJS) is an immune-complex-mediated hypersensitivity disorder caused by an adverse allergic reaction to medications. While there may be several causes of general SJS, Drug-Induced SJS is caused by a severe allergic reaction to both over the counter and prescribed medications including Cox-2 Inhibitors, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory…
Plaintiff Dottie Dodson is suing Novartis AG for dangerous drug injury compensation. In her products liability lawsuit, she contends that she developed kidney damage from taking Valturna. Dodson claims that the drug maker did not adequately warn users about the possible side effects of the hypertension drug, which contains aliskiren,…
A jury has awarded the family of Breanna Sadler a $7.25 million defective ear implant verdict. The 11-year-old girl, who was born deaf, suffered electrical shock multiple times four years after she was implanted with a Cochlear ear implant. Because the defective medical device had to be taken out of…
A federal judge says that a plaintiff’s defective design, manufacturing design, failure to warn, negligence, marketing defect, and strict product liability claims in one pelvic mesh case against Boston Scientific Corp can proceed. The manufacturer had sought to have a number of the defective medical device allegations thrown out. In…
Lisa Lincoln has filed the first federal Stryker ABGII hip lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Her complaint comes nearly one year after Stryker recalled its Rejuvenate Modular and ABG II hip implant parts because of possible risks, such as corrosion/fretting of/around the modular-neck stems.…
A report published this month in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology talks about a pregnant woman who had to get a Mirena IUD surgically removed from her body when she was three months pregnant. She actually didn’t know the device was still in her because an ultrasound procedure…