Xarelto Lawsuit Consolidation Assigned To Judge Eldon E. Fallon

June 02, 2016 – – TheProductLawyers.com reports on Xarelto lawsuits filed by plaintiffs who used the blood-thinning drug and experienced instances of uncontrolled dangerous bleeding. The lawsuits have been filed against Bayer AG and the subsidiary company of corporate giant Johnson & Johnson, Janssen Pharmaceuticals. Additionally, due to the cases being filed, numbering in excess of 2,800, and all against the same defendants with very similar allegations, a group of Xarelto patients petitioned the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to have the cases consolidated and centralized. The consolidation hearing was heard on December 4, 2015.

The panel rendered a decision on December 12, 2015, and concurred with the petitioners that it was a prudent course of action to have the cases transferred and be litigated together. The panel stated that due to the immense growth of the number of cases being litigated, it demonstrated the impracticality of having them all considered individually given that they were all against the same defendants and were similar in scope in terms of the allegations being made about the drug. The panel felt that the decision to consolidate was an easy one in that it would facilitate a more streamlined process, prevent lengthy and duplicative discovery searches, and avoid the potential for many conflicting decisions by numerous judges in other jurisdictions. The legal expenses and time spent by all of the parties involved in each individual case would be greatly minimized as well.

The panel further stated that it was assigning the multidistrict litigation to U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon who was well versed in, willing and able to preside over this particular multidistrict litigation (MDL 2592) in a very prudent and effective fashion.

The defendants in the case had argued that the cases should be transferred to New Jersey since that was where they were located. Instead, the panel opted to assign the case to the Southern District of Illinois.

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