This week it was announced that the DePuy ASR global settlement will be expanded to include additional claims totaling roughly 420 million dollars. The previous global settlement announced in November 2013 had a threshold of eligibility being that a revision had to occur prior to August 2013. The new deal includes claims where revision surgeries… Read more →
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Miller Firm Wins Its 6th Actos Trial
2/13/15 UPDATE The Miller Firm is happy to report the Philadelphia Jury today further awarded punitive damages for Mr. Kristufek for 1.3 million. The jury found Takeda’s conduct amounted to reckless indifference for the health of Actos users such as Mr. Kristufek. We view this as the icing on the cake of yesterday’s great news… Read more →
Bloomberg Reports On Kristufek Actos Closing Arguments
The Miller Firm is expecting a jury verdict by this afternoon as closing arguments were held yesterday. We will be posting once we hear the result. Bloomberg reported about the trial. Read the full article HERE.
Actos Verdict Upheld and 6th Trial Winds Down
The Miller Firm’s 6th Actos trial winds down as the Miller Firm anticipates resolution of the Philadelphia trial by the end of the week. Closing arguments are proceeding this morning and jury deliberations will likely begin in the afternoon. We are certainly optimistic and hoping for the best. In the meantime, the Miller Firm received… Read more →
DePuy ASR Trial Verdict
THIRD DEPUY ASR TRIAL RESULTS IN PLAINTIFF VERDICT We are happy to report that a Tulsa County Oklahoma Jury found in favor of a Plaintiff in the the third DePuy ASR trial to date. This puts the overall scoreboard at 2-1. The jury returned a verdict of 2.5 million to Plaintiff Andrea Smith, who had… Read more →
Ethicon Case Settles During Trial
Ethicon/Johnson and Johnson has settled a case that was one week into trial in Missouri as well as three other cases that were set for early trial dates. Read about it in more detail here. These settlements mark a drop in the bucket for the many cases that remain filed and pending but could be… Read more →
ACTOS Update Week 1 of Trial
The Miller Firm is currently in its second week of trial in Philadelphia, Kristufek v. Takeda. This case is the 6th Actos case the Miller Firm has taken to trial. The trial is expected to last roughly four weeks. During the first half of the trial the Plaintiff is putting on its case in chief… Read more →
Transvaginal Mesh Verdict Scoreboard
TRANSVAGINAL MESH UPDATE Please see the upcoming trials here. But we wanted to provide you a summary of trials to date. Further, please note the general update is that so far only Endo/American Medical Systems (AMS) has began substantive settlement talks. The Miller Firm is engaged in preliminary talks with AMS but has not finalized anything… Read more →
Viagra Melanoma Lawsuits Getting Ready to Be Filed
As accurately reported by the New Jersey Law Journal, the Miller Firm is one of the leading firms readying to begin filing lawsuits alleging Viagra caused melanoma/skin cancer in people across the US. http://www.njlawjournal.com/id=1202676352000/Lawyers-Readying-Suits-Claiming-Viagra-Caused-Skin-Cancer The reason for the delay on filing is two-fold. First, we are consulting with experts to be sure that our cases… Read more →
FACTS ABOUT MIRENA PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI LAWSUITS
Here’s some background on the allegations and facts surrounding the Mirena pseudotumor cerebri litigaiton. We are actively pursuing these claims for victims of the Mirena IUD device. Background: Mirena is an intrauterine system that is inserted by a healthcare practitioner during an office visit. Mirena® is a t-shaped polyethylene frame with a steroid reservoir that… Read more →
2015 Kicks off with a Host of Transvaginal Mesh Trials
We hope to see the continued success of Transvaginal Mesh Trials. Trials are set all over the country for the first half of 2015. We hope that these trials make the companies see the light and aid in reaching settlements that fairly compensate clients for their significant injuries. Here is the latest trial schedule. We… Read more →
Miller Firm Begins 6th Actos Trial!
Next week the Miller Firm begins its 6th Actos trial. KRISTUFEK V. TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICALS AMERICA,INC. will be tried in Philadelphia before the Honorable Marlene F. Lachman. We hope to continue our string of success including favorable jury verdicts in 4/5 trials to date. To date, Takeda has refused to take responsibility and discuss settlement on… Read more →
The Miller Firm Win VS Takeda Phamaceuticals
The Miller Firm is pleased to announce the third win in front of a jury in four trials against Takeda Pharmaceuticals, the makers of Actos. Today, a Philadelphia jury held Takeda Liable for the bladder cancer of Francis Wisniewski. Takeda’s attempt to blame the plaintiff’s thirty year smoking history failed; and Takeda’s attempt to exonerate… Read more →
Juries Find for Plaintiffs in First Two Actos Trials
The Miller Firm took the country’s first Actos case to trial in February 2013 in Los Angeles Superior Court. After eight weeks of evidence and argument, the jury in Cooper v. Takeda et al. returned a verdict in favor of the Plaintiffs Jack Cooper and his wife in the amount of $6.5 million dollars. The… Read more →
Actos Cancer Victim Gets Accelerated Trial Date
Orange, Va. February 15, 2013. The Miller Firm and the Branch Law Firm recently announced that on February 19, 2013, they will bring the first Actos case to trial against Takeda Pharmaceuticals on behalf of Jack Cooper, an Actos patient struggling with terminal bladder cancer. This first trial is significant because it could influence subsequent trials for some 1,000 other people who have claimed that they were not warned that bladder cancer was a risk with taking Actos for diabetes.