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On January 12, 2012, Judge Carol E. Higbee held case management conferences in the In re Pelvic Mesh/Gynecare and In re Pelvic Mesh/Bard Litigations.  Judge Higbee presides over both centralized actions, which involve all of the transvaginal mesh lawsuits filed in New Jersey state court.  Bernstei...

PRESS RELEASE: Bernstein Liebhard LLP reports on a new law that would compel drug and medical device manufacturers to disclose any money paid to doctors for research, speaking, consulting, travel and entertainment.  According to a January 17, 2012 article published in the New York Times, under t...

PRESS RELEASE: Bernstein Liebhard LLP reports that on January 12, 2012, a series of additional depositions of DePuy Orthopeadic executives were noticed in In re: DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. ASR Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation (“MDL No. 2197”), which is currently underway in the U.S. D...

PRESS RELEASE: Bernstein Liebhard LLP reports that following a January 9, 2012 Case Management Order, which appointed plaintiffs’ counsel to serve on various leadership committees in In re: DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. Pinnacle Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation (“MDL No. 2244”), current...

PRESS RELEASE: Bernstein Liebhard LLP reports that on December 29, 2011, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (“JPML”) ordered that all Actos lawsuits pending in federal courts nationwide be consolidated and centralized in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Lou...

PRESS RELEASE: Bernstein Liebhard LLP is pleased to announce that on January 9, 2012 partner Jeffrey S. Grand was named to both the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee (“PSC”) and the Discovery Committee in In re: DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. Pinnacle Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation (“MD...

PRESS RELEASE: Bernstein Liebhard LLP reports that on January 9, 2012, the Honorable David A. Katz, who is overseeing In re: DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. ASR Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation (“MDL No. 2197”), currently underway in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio...

PRESS RELEASE: Bernstein Liebhard LLP reports that on January 3, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) ordered Johnson & Johnson and C.R. Bard Inc., manufacturers of vaginal mesh implants, to study rates of side effects such as organ damage, infection and painful sexual inte...

PRESS RELEASE: Bernstein Liebhard LLP reports on a recent study concluding that new artificial joint replacements, which include metal-on-metal hip implants, do not perform any better than older models.*  In addition, due to their high failure rates, these metal-on-metal implants are expected t...

PRESS RELEASE: Bernstein Liebhard LLP is pleased to announce the launching of its newly revamped website, www.consumerinjurylawyers.com. Visitors will find user-friendly information about cases, including time lines, current news updates, Firm press releases and videos. The redesign was top-to-bo...