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In Re: Zofran (Ondansetron)Products Liability Litigation

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Case Number:

1:15-md-02657

Court:

Massachusetts

Nature of Suit:

Personal Injury: Health Care/Pharmaceutical Personal Injury Product Liability

Multi Party Litigation:

Multi-district Litigation

Judge:

F. Dennis Saylor, IV

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  1. March 01, 2024

    GSK, Shook Hardy Can Recover Costs After Zofran MDL Win

    GlaxoSmithKline and its attorneys from Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP can recover more than $450,000 in legal costs after beating a multidistrict suit claiming the company's anti-nausea drug Zofran caused birth defects, a federal judge has ruled.

  2. March 16, 2023

    Families In GSK MDL Rip Shook Hardy For 'Ironic' Costs Bid

    Families that sued GlaxoSmithKline claiming its anti-nausea drug Zofran caused birth defects told a federal judge Wednesday that the company can't recoup roughly $578,000 in costs and called it "ironic" and "disheartening" because GSK's firm, Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP, had dropped a similar request in another multidistrict litigation.

  3. June 25, 2021

    Top Product Liability Cases Of 2021: Midyear Report

    A U.S. Supreme Court ruling holding that Ford can be held liable for alleged defects in cars originally sold outside a plaintiff's home state and a ruling wiping out hundreds of cases alleging GlaxoSmithKline's anti-nausea drug Zofran causes birth defects are among Law360's top cases for the first six months of 2021.

  4. June 18, 2021

    GSK Gets Top Court Assist In MDL Victory 'Roadmap'

    A sweeping order ending more than 400 cases alleging GlaxoSmithKline's anti-nausea medication Zofran causes birth defects provides a "roadmap" for fending off multidistrict litigation with the help of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling, experts say.

  5. June 01, 2021

    Key Ruling Foils GSK Zofran MDL Ahead Of Bellwether

    GlaxoSmithKline will not have to face more than 420 suits in multidistrict litigation alleging its anti-nausea medication Zofran causes birth defects, after a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Tuesday the claims are preempted because federal regulators declined to add a warning label for pregnant women.

  6. April 21, 2021

    Possible 'Showstopper' Ruling Looms In GSK Birth Defect Suit

    A federal judge said during a Wednesday hearing that a ruling on whether claims that GlaxoSmithKline's anti-nausea medication Zofran triggers birth defects are preempted will be coming soon, a decision he's called a potential "showstopper" in the multidistrict suit.

  7. March 24, 2021

    GSK Says No Link Between Zofran, Defects Undermines MDL

    Lawyers for GlaxoSmithKline argued Wednesday that more than 300 cases in a multidistrict product liability suit over its anti-nausea medication should be nixed since the plaintiffs' own expert determined there is no link between the drug and cardiac birth defects.

  8. February 24, 2021

    Zofran Birth Defect MDL Finally Heading For Trial In Fall

    A Massachusetts federal judge running the first bellwether in multidistrict litigation over whether GlaxoSmithKline's anti-nausea medication Zofran causes birth defects said Wednesday that he's considering an October starting date after a lengthy postponement triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.

  9. November 10, 2020

    GSK Says FDA Rejected Zofran Label Change

    GlaxoSmithKline on Monday told a Massachusetts federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation over its anti-nausea medicine Zofran that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has rejected a proposed label change that would have added birth defect warnings.

  10. June 23, 2020

    Pandemic May Push 1st Zofran MDL Bellwether To 2021

    A Massachusetts federal judge told lawyers representing GlaxoSmithKline and plaintiffs who claim its anti-nausea medicine Zofran caused birth defects that he's open to creative ways to hold a complex jury trial with social distancing, but he may have no choice but to wait until 2021.

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