Recent Posts in Yaz lawsuit Category
Posted on Apr 26, 2012 By Jennifer Williams
Bloomberg news reported today that Bayer announced it has settled 651 cases alleging that its birth control pills, Yaz and Yasmin, caused sometimes-fatal blood clots that can lead to deep vein ...
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Posted on Apr 17, 2012 By Jennifer Williams
Last week Bloomberg news reported that Bayer AG, Germany's largest drugmaker, has agreed to pay at least $100 million to settle about 500 lawsuits involving Bayer's oral birth control pills, ...
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Posted on Mar 2, 2012 By Jennifer Williams
In its 2011 Annual Report released today, Bayer admits it has settled 70 Yaz/Yasmin lawsuits. According to the report Bayer had reached agreements, without admission of liability, to settle the claims ...
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Posted on Jan 4, 2012 By Jennifer Williams
In an order filed on December 31, 2011 the federal judge presiding over the Yaz/Yasmin MDL litigation, officially delayed the start of the first bellwether trial slated to begin next Monday, January ...
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Posted on Nov 21, 2011 By Jennifer Williams
An article out today on Bloomberg.com states that units of Bayer AG, Germany's largest drug maker, may have promoted its birth control pills, Yasmin and Yaz, for unapproved uses. The article also ...
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Posted on Jun 14, 2011 By Jennifer Williams, Esq.
On June 9, 2011, Judge Herndon set the bellwether trial schedule for the Yaz / Yasmin litigation in the federal court multidistrict litigation (MDL). The first case set for trial involves a young ...
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Posted on Jan 7, 2011 By Yaz Lawyers
The Pennsylvania State Court Judge Sandra Moss overseeing the consolidated litigation involving Yaz and Yasmin birth control pills has established a bellwether trial schedule similar to the one ...
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Posted on Dec 6, 2010 By Allen Law Firm
As previously reported, the first "bellwether" case in the Yaz / Yasmin Multi-District Litigation will involve a woman who suffered a pulmonary embolism . Because so many of the women who have sued ...
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Posted on Nov 15, 2010 By Jackson Allen Williams, LLP
Members of the Plaintiffs Steering Committee and Defendants Steering Committee have chosen the first twenty-four Yaz/Yasmin cases from which the first bellwether trials will be chosen. Plaintiffs and ...
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Posted on Oct 13, 2010 By Jennifer Williams
The Judge overseeing the Yaz / Yasmin multidistrict litigation has ordered that the first Yaz/Yasmin lawsuit go to trial beginning September 12, 2011. The Court's order detailed the process for ...
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Posted on Aug 11, 2010 By Jackson Allen Williams, LLP
According to a recent hearing in the federal court handling the Yaz and Yasmin MDL lawsuits, the cases are moving forward through the discovery stage. During the discovery period, the parties exchange ...
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Posted on Jul 29, 2010 By Jennifer Williams
In the last two months alone, over 700 Yasmin / Yaz lawsuits have been filed in the federal multidistrict Yaz litigation. That brings the total number of Yasmin / Yaz lawsuits filed in federal court ...
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Posted on Jun 22, 2010 By Jackson Allen Williams, LLP
You can now follow the Yaz lawyers from Jackson Allen Williams, LLP on Facebook. Click here to find out more. On Jackson Allen Williams' Yaz Lawyers Facebook page, women who have been serious injured ...
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Posted on Jun 15, 2010 By Jackson Allen Williams, LLP
This June, Teva Pharmaceuticals announced that it would beginning selling a generic form of the Yaz birth control pill called Gianvi. Promptly following this announcement, Bayer filed a patent ...
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Posted on Jun 4, 2010 By Jennifer Williams
The Yaz/Yasmin litigation in the federal court MDL and state court consolidations are proceeding through the discovery phase including preliminary depositions and extensive document review. In the ...
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Posted on May 27, 2010 By Allen Law Firm
More than 1700 lawsuits have been filed against Bayer and related entities on behalf of women seriously injured after taking the birth control pills Yasmin and Yaz. Since last year women have been ...
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Posted on Jan 21, 2010 By Jackson Allen Williams
Today, the parties will meet and confer in the multi-district litigation regarding the Yaz/Yasmin litigation. This is the third status conference in the MDL litigation. Two of our attorneys are ...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2009 By Jennifer Williams
A hearing was held in Philadelphia on Friday to discuss certain discovery issues in the Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella litigation . Of utmost concern was the questions defendants will be allowed to ask ...
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Posted on Nov 9, 2009 By Jennifer Williams
New Jersey Judge Donald Volkert, Jr. made an application to the New Jersey judiciary to designate the 39 cases against drug companies Bayer and Teva over the birth control pills, Yaz, Yasmin and ...
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