I’m a trial lawyer for injured people and businesses at The Beasley Firm, founded in 1958. Our clients have been awarded over $2 billion through hundreds of verdicts and settlements in excess of $1 million. We’re listed in Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, U.S. News’s Top Lawyers, et cetera. The [...]
When Should The Statute Of Limitations Run For Medication Lawsuits?
Last week, our firm blog posted a short note about how Actos patients with bladder cancer in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee should move quickly to file because those states have a one-year statute of limitations for personal injury actions. We (and a whole bunch of other lawyers) assume that Takeda Pharmaceuticals will argue that the statute of limitations began to run on June 15, 2011, when the FDA issued an updated warning that one year of Actos use increases the risk of bladder cancer by more than 40%. As if on cue, the next day Pfizer moved for summary judgment on a whole swatch of consolidated Chantix ... Continue Reading
Antidepressant Birth Defects and The First Amendment
The big shift in thinking about antidepressant use in pregnancy began in late 2005, when the FDA warned that Paxil "increases the risk for birth defects, particularly heart defects, when women take it during the first three months of pregnancy," and demanded GlaxoSmithKline to change Paxil from a "Category C" drug to a "Category D" drug, i.e. a drug known to produce birth defects or injure fetuses. In February 2006, the landmark "Selective Serotonin-Reuptake Inhibitors and Risk of Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn (PPHN)" study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showing that Prozac use in ... Continue Reading
