The Merman Law Firm is proud to be part of the local and national legal community and will endeavor to use its blogs to educate regarding pending and recent drug recalls, product recalls and catastrophes caused by negligent companies. The Merman Law Firm will be periodically publishing information for consumers and personal injury victims in…
The Merman Law Firm is active in the DePuy ASR hip recall litigation. Below are excerpts from one Complaint filed in the Southern District of Texas, which has been consolidated in Ohio: FACTUAL ALLEGATIONS The ASR devices were developed by DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. and/or Johnson & Johnson, Inc. in order to reconstruct human hip joints…
All of the cases filed across the nation involving the DuPuy ASR metal-on-metal hip have been consolidated in Ohio in a single MDL. “MDL” stands for multi-district litigation and allows a single court to consolidate all related actions into a single court for uniform pre-trial. Once all of the discovery (exchange of documents and depositions of…
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine May 17, 2012 reports a small increase in cardiovascular deaths, and in the risk of death from any cause, in persons treated with a 5-day course of azithromycin (Zithromax) compared to persons treated with amoxicillin, ciprofloxacin, or no drug. FDA is reviewing the results from this…
Two workers were seriously injured in a plant explosion in Nixon, Texas in the early morning hours of May 16, 2012. The plant, reportedly owned by Vann Energy, has been cited by OSHA more than a dozen times related to worker safety. The two men were severely burned in the tank area of the plant, purportedly while cleaning…
