8/13/2008 4:48:20 PM EST Posted by Tom MoylanLexisNexis Torts Law Center Staff A minimum text length of 0 characters is required. Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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8/1/2008 8:53:48 AM EST Posted by Tom MoylanLexisNexis Torts Law Center Staff A Minnesota federal jury on July 30 awarded a plaintiff and his wife $8.2 million for his claims that Mirapex caused him to become a compulsive gambler. Of that, $7.8 million were punitive damages against defendants Pfizer Inc. and Boehringer Ing ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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7/25/2008 6:12:49 PM EST Posted by Tom MoylanLexisNexis Torts Law Center Staff Had enough of Judge Jack Weinstein? No you haven’t. On July 17, the Brooklyn-based federal judge issued a statement that could end up being cited in third-party payer litigation. The crux: while Eli Lilly and Co. should have been more ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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7/17/2008 6:18:47 PM EST Posted by Tom MoylanLexisNexis Torts Law Center Staff Judge Jack Weinstein held a hearing today (July 17) on his discussion-only draft certification of a third-party payer RICO class against Eli Lilly. The upshot: the parties didn’t take the settlement bait, so they’re to file motions by Aug. ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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7/11/2008 4:11:48 PM EST Posted by Tom MoylanLexisNexis Torts Law Center Staff Eli Lilly and Zyprexa third-party plaintiffs were thrown into the judicial equivalent of a cage match July 2 by the ever-innovative Judge Jack Weinstein. Asked to certify or deny a RICO class, the Brooklyn federal judge just didn’t is ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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6/23/2008 3:12:08 PM EST Posted by Tom MoylanLexisNexis Torts Law Center Staff I’ve officially been at this legal reporting thing too long when I start recognizing patterns from a case that started 14 years ago. I reported last week in Mealey’s Emerging Drugs & Devices that a Texas fed ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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6/5/2008 12:58:19 PM EST Posted by Chad BrownLegal Librarian, Thomas M. Cooley Law School A minimum text length of 0 characters is required. Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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6/6/2008 2:50:36 PM EST Posted by Tom MoylanLexisNexis Torts Law Center Staff Like consumers to Baskin-Robbins’ ketchup-flavored ice cream, Judge Michael M. Baylson last month wasn’t buying GlaxoSmithKline’s argument that it can remove an asthma inhaler case from state court before it is served with the complai ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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5/19/2008 5:43:11 PM EST Posted by Tom MoylanLexisNexis Torts Law Center Staff Like Apollo Creed in “Rocky,” the FDA came out full of confidence in April and got decked in a Florida federal courtroom. Well, not completely decked. But the FDA lost two out of three civil violation claims against orthopedic d ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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5/5/2008 5:19:44 PM EST Posted by Tom MoylanLexisNexis Torts Law Center Staff I’m not sure what the longest-running drug liability case is, but I suspect that the case of Mary Gunderson is right up there. Mary Gunderson gave birth to her second son in 1993 and was given Parlodel to inhibit lactation since she w ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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4/24/2008 12:26:09 PM EST Posted by Tom MoylanLexisNexis Torts Law Center Staff I can’t make this stuff up: the active ingredient for heparin, the blood thinner drug, comes from pig intestines. The Wall Street Journal’s Web site has a, well, memorable photo of a worker with his hands about to reach into a shin ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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4/7/2008 4:48:46 PM EST Posted by Tom MoylanLexisNexis Torts Law Center Staff A minimum text length of 0 characters is required. Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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3/26/2008 5:18:47 PM EST Posted by Tom MoylanLexisNexis Torts Law Center Staff There’s something about Alaska and Zyprexa that just keeps on giving. Maybe it’s the juxtaposition of A and Z; the alpha and the omega. Or maybe it’s just happenstance. Whatever the reason, Alaska, hardly a bastion of drug ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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3/20/2008 4:09:17 PM EST Posted by Tom MoylanLexisNexis Torts Law Center Staff It’s the kind of story that makes you suck in a deep breath: The SEC alleges that three former executives of Sulzer Medica (later Centerpulse Orthopedics) in 2002 falsified financial reports so the company could get $635 million in loans from a c ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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3/11/2008 4:42:32 PM EST Posted by Tom MoylanLexisNexis Torts Law Center Staff Ya cudda knocked me over with a feather, as the cliché goes, when the U.S. Supreme Court on March 3 split 4-4 on in the Warner-Lambert v. Kent Michigan drug preemption case. So fast (just a week after arguments)! So . . . split! Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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