For years defendants in tort cases have said that Philadelphia's courts are biased, but little in the way of empirical data was available to substantiate the claims.
A Pennsylvania attorney has filed two separate Avandia mass tort claims at Philadelphia’s Common Pleas Court, just as the main defendant in the case is apparently getting ready to close out much of the existing litigation involving the drug that is designed to control diabetes.
A Wisconsin woman who claims her daughter’s birth defect diagnosis was attributed to her taking a drug for depression during her pregnancy is suing the pharmaceutical’s manufacturer in state court.
A former employee with GlaxoSmithKline has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the drug maker, alleging that his termination after almost a decade of employment was related to what he alleges were false charges against him of sexual harassment by a coworker.
A federal judge this week issued some rulings on motions by GlaxoSmithKline counsel in the massive Multi-District Litigation Avandia case. The company won one and lost two.
The parents of a Florida boy who suffers from the effects of a congenital birth defect known as Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn, or PPHN, a disease that the plaintiffs allege was caused by the mother’s ingestion of the drug Paxil, have filed a mass tort claim against the makers of the medication.
