Alert: Actos & Bladder Cancer

Posted on | December 31, 2011 | No Comments

In what has become a trend it seems, another Diabetes drug has been found to have serious side effects for those who take it.  The drug Actos & bladder cancer have been linked in studies that were published recently in medical journals.

Actos was hailed as a safer alternative to another Type 2 Diabetes drug, Avandia, after that drug was found to have serious side effects.  Avandia was given tight restrictions by the FDA after a 2010 study was published linking higher risk of heart problems with the use of Avandia.

Interestingly, that same 2010 study also found serious Actos side effects, including the very same heart problems linked to Avandia, and for which use of the latter drug was tightly restricted.

Now, bladder cancer can be added to the list of serious Actos side effects.  Actos bladder cancer links have been found in patients all over the United States.

What’s important for you if you’ve taken Actos and suffered bladder cancer or other Actos side effects, is that you learn about your legal rights.  In an Actos lawsuit, you will want to protect your rights, as well as preserve your compensation.

Zimmer Lawsuit

Posted on | November 4, 2011 | No Comments

There seems to be a Zimmer lawsuit everywhere you look these days, but a company that’s so large and covers so many tricky types of medical devices is bound to have problems every so often.   The company makes joint replacements for knees, hips, shoulders, elbows, essentially a musculo-skeletal parts manufacturer and a leader in joint replacement technologies.  This is a rapidly growing segment of the medical procedure world and things such as the occasional Zimmer lawsuit come with the territory.

Some models of Zimmer’s NexGen® Knee replacement system is one their top selling products but has been hit with one Zimmer lawsuit after another in the past several years.  There are several parts in the NexGen systems that have been associated with problems, which cause pain and loosening of the knee replacement system.  That can lead to surgery to redo the knee replacement and plaintiffs in various versions of the Zimmer lawsuit are seeking a class action to sue for medical expenses for replacement surgery.

Another version of the Zimmer lawsuit involves their hip replacement products.   Their Curom Cut hip replacements have been a source of problems for patients and now with Zimmer hip replacement class action lawsuit pending in Canada, it’s a problem for Zimmer as well.

 

 

Wal-Mart Class Action

Posted on | October 28, 2011 | 1 Comment

The Wal-Mart class action is still alive, and if lawyers for the plaintiffs get their way, it’s back better than ever.

The Wal-Mart class action may be back, but not it’s not bigger than ever.  Rather, the new Wal-Mart class action is scaled down to cover female Wal-Mart employees in California only.  This means the class is now 45, 000 strong, containing both current and former workers at the national retail giant.

The new filing of the Wal-Mart class action was filed recently in Federal court in San Francisco and will represent the first of several Wal-Mart class action suits, smaller and covering smaller regional areas of the country.  Every Wal-Mart class action will be a gender bias lawsuit, claiming that women were paid less than men and were not promoted as often as men.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs in the Wal-Mart class action claim their evidence is still as strong as ever, and plan to move forward to advocate for women who were allegedly treated differently than men.

As to be expected, Wal-Mart is fighting claims brought forth in the Wal-Mart lawsuit, on the basis that the women in the class are not similar enough to form a class.

 

DePuy ASR Hip Class Action

Posted on | September 19, 2011 | 1 Comment

The De Puy ASR hip class action is underway, as more patients begin to suffer symptoms of implant failure.  The device was recalled more than a year go, after patients began suffering hip pain and swelling as well as problems walking.

The basis of the DePuy ASR hip class action is that there is a high failure rate because of design, and manufacturers knew about it before it went to market.

The ASR hip implant system was deemed a medical device breakthrough when it first came on the market.  The chromium and cobalt metals promised a more enduring hip implant and was therefore ideal for younger patients.

In a traditional hip implant, there is a metal ball but it has a plastic liner.  The Depuy ASR hip implant was metal on metal, more enduring.   The sad irony is that the ASR system actually fails faster than the traditional hip implant.   In as little as five months after the operation, pain is back for many patients.  Now, those patients have formed a DePuy ASR hip class action.

The potential for the DePuy ASR hip class action is quite large.  In the United States, 93,000 people have had them surgically implanted.  There have been hundreds of complaints.  If the hip implant system fails, it has to be replaced.  Data shows that both sides fail 12% of time within five years.

Besides worrying about hip implant failure, patients and doctors are also concerned about metal particles entering the blood stream, causing demetia or death.  Doctors should check for chromium and cobalt in the blood.

De Puy and its parent company are both facing ASR hip class action lawsuits.  Plaintiffs are looking for evidence that the high failure rates may have shown up before De Puy and J&J  put them on the market.  It was discovered in a document that the FDA did actually approve De Puy’s ASR system for the market with no testing!  This was allowed because of a loophole in the FDA system, which says a product can got to market with no testing if it is similar to a previously FED-approved device.

Plaintiffs in the DePuy ASR hip class action have suffered symptoms like lots of inflammation and tissue damage.  The inflammation sometimes causes a third operation.  Doctors are worried that some patients can even end up in wheelchairs for the rest of life,  if the destructive process goes too far.  The number of plaintiffs in the DePuy ASR hip class action is expected to grow as more cases come to light.

comScore Class Action Lawsuit

Posted on | August 28, 2011 | No Comments

comScore has been named in a class action lawsuit this week, in a data collection issue that has consumers upset.  Internet users download free software onto their home PCs and rarely read the terms and conditions.

comScore offers free software in exchange for information about themselves and their internet usage.  They also get to enter sweepstakes in exchange for information.  This is what data collection companies do, and it’s big business these days.  They then turn around and sell the collected information to firms like Google and Facebook.

The comScore class action lawsuit claims that comScore collects sensitive personal and financial information, such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, and more, from users who have downloaded their free software.

The class action lawsuit also claims that comScore scans all the files on users’ personal computers, which is a breach of privacy rules.  Privacy advocates are more and more focused these days on data collection, especially when it’s happening without users’ knowledge.  Just take a look at the class action lawsuits that name Apple and its IPhone as defendant.  The IPhone logs locations on the phone’s software, which is a serious privacy issue.

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