The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has adopted a recommendation by the federal judge overseeing the Asbestos Products Liability Litigation in Philadelphia to cease transferring tag-along actions originating in seven districts across the country to Pennsylvania.
An Indiana woman who claims she sustained injuries as a result of having a pelvic mesh device surgically implanted in her body has filed a product liability complaint against the device’s manufacturer.
Pennsylvania’s top law enforcer has announced that the commonwealth has joined 40 other state attorneys general in support of federal legislation that would give generic drug makers the same ability to correct label warnings as their brand-name counterparts.
A York, Pa. man who claims that he sustained injuries after having a double hip replacement is suing the manufacturers of the surgically implanted product, alleging that its faulty nature caused him great harm.
A Philadelphia man who claims he became injured last winter while waiting to obtain an autograph from a professional football player is suing the hotel where the alleged incident occurred.
Pfizer and Wyeth are once against facing a civil claim over the much-litigated diet pill Phen-Fen, this one filed at Philadelphia’s Common Pleas Court on Aug. 26 by an Indiana couple and their four children.
The father of a man who has been rendered incapacitated, allegedly due to the actions of a few Philadelphia police officers, is suing on behalf of his son.