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... a pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis shortly after she began using the medication. The lawsuits further allege that Bayer Corporation and other defendants negligently and fraudulently represented that Yaz had been tested and found to be safe and effective and that the defendants concealed their knowledge of its defects. The lawsuits name Bayer Corporation, its subsidiaries, Berlex Laboratories, Inc. and Berlex, Inc. as defendants. More than 200 lawsuits have been filed ...

... J. Carey of Carey & Danis and Jeffrey J. Lowe of The Lowe Law Firm. The suits claim that Bayer failed to warn prescribers and consumers of the dangers associated with the drug, defectively designed the drug, fraudulently concealed the ... the fall of 2006, an FDA advisory board met to decide whether the warning on Trasylol needed to be changed. At the meeting, Bayer failed to disclose the findings of a Trasylol study it had funded. In that study, Dr. Alexander Walker-a professor at the Harvard ...

Washington sued Bayer Corp. in King County Superior Court for failing to warn prescribers and consumers of side effects from a cholesterol drug that has since been removed from the market. Washington was joined by 29 other states. Without admitting any wrongdoing, Bayer has now settled for $8 million. McKenna Announces $8 Million Settlement with Bayer Corporation, AG's press release, Jan. 25, 2007. The complaint and consent decree are here.

... $2.5 million to switch their patients to Bayer diabetes supplies, allegedly disguising the kickbacks as advertising payments. The DOJ further alleged that Bayer caused the companies to then submit false claims to Medicare. In addition to the settlement payment, Bayer agreed to enter into a corporate integrity agreement with the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services ("OIG"). This agreement will allow the ...

... maker of the clotting drug Trasylol, has many faces. Last September, Bayer's representatives stood before a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory ... Instead of facing the families who have lost loved ones as result of Trasylol, it seems that Bayer is more interested in boosting its bottom line and saving face with investors. If ... Danis is a national law firm that represents individuals injured by America's largest corporations. For more information, fill out our online contact form or call Carey ...

... were given comparable and cheaper blood clotting drugs. On May 14, Bayer notified the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that it will begin removing remaining ... American market, most of which is in warehouses and in the possession of hospitals and physicians. Bayer should have taken this step long ago. The BART study is not the first ... Danis is a national law firm that represents individuals injured by America's largest corporations. For more information, fill out our online contact form or call Carey ...

... Suit Removable But Rejects Defense Claim that CAFA Shifts Burden of Proof to Plaintiff to Prove Remand is Warranted Plaintiff filed a putative class action in Massachusetts state court against Bayer, Crompton Corporation and Uniroyal Chemical on February 10, 2005, alleging a conspiracy to fix prices on certain rubber ... on February 10, 2006, under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA). Moniz v. Bayer A.G., 447 F.Supp.2d 31, 32-33 (D.Mass. 2006). Plaintiff filed a ...

... . In the fall of 2006, an FDA advisory board met to decide whether the warning on Trasylol needed to be changed. At the meeting, Bayer failed to disclose the findings of a Trasylol study it had funded. In that study, Dr. Alexander Walker-a professor at the Harvard School of ... . We can help. Carey & Danis is a national law firm that represents individuals injured by America's largest corporations. For more information, fill out our online contact form or call Carey & Danis toll-free at 800- ...

Alas, I found no public domain images of Jean Tennyson, wife of Camille Dreyfus, who was president of the Celanese Corporation at the time it decided to promote its product (which is not, I repeat, not rayon) by sponsoring a...

... product liability suit involving the drug Trasylol in Delaware state court. Hutchins v. Bayer Corp., No. 08-640-JJF-LPS, 2009 WL 192468 (D. ... so none of the parties "joined and served" was a citizen of Delaware? That was what happened here, where Bayer Corporation removed the case before any defendant had been served. Hutchins ... *8. Geez -- at this point, we were thinking that the deck was hopelessly stacked against Bayer. But the court then read the statute. And the court knew that it must enforce ...