Posts Archive: Medical Device & Pharmaceutical

Minnesota attorneys, Genevieve Zimmerman & Tony Nemo steered action on defective hip devices that landed $1.4 billion settlement.

Meshbesher & Spence’s mass tort attorneys fought for people who suffered devastating injuries after taking Vioxx. In 2004, Merck pulled Vioxx from the market after reports surfaced that the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug may cause life-threatening heart attacks and strokes. After multiple trials, Merck eventually agreed to a settlement paying injured plaintiffs more t…

Meshbesher & Spence attorneys represented plaintiffs implanted with Stryker’s Rejuvenate and ABG II modular hip stems that were subject to a recall in 2012. All of the lawsuits filed in federal court were consolidated before The Honorable Donovan Frank in the District of Minnesota. Judge Frank appointed Meshbesher & Spence attorneys to lead the litigation on behalf of plai…

Attorneys at Meshbesher & Spence represented people who took the diet drugs known as fen-phen and suffered serious side effects, including potentially fatal heart valve damage. The drugs were withdrawn from the market after a Mayo Clinic study linked fen-phen to serious injuries, but not before an estimated 6 million people already took the drug. Plaintiffs have reportedly…