Controversy Mounts As FDA Issues Black Box Warnings And Xarelto Lawsuit Filings Increase

June 17, 2016 – – TheProductLawyers.com reports on the increasing number of lawsuits filed against the makers of Xarelto, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subdivision of the Johnson and Johnson Corporation, and Bayer AG. To date, there have been over 3,400 lawsuits filed since the drug’s approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2011, which have uniformly and consistently named Janssen and Bayer as defendants.

Given the breadth of the number of cases and the commonalities among them, the cases were consolidated into two primary groups. The biggest is a multidistrict litigation (MDL) numbering over 2,800 federally-filed cases that were consolidated by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML). The JPML assigned jurisdiction over these cases to the Honorable Judge Eldon Fallon in the Eastern District of Louisiana and has assigned the MDL number 2592. The second group is one that numbers in excess of 600 cases and is a mass tort program in Philadelphia, PA that was grouped together by the Court of Common Pleas.

When Xarelto was released on the market in 2011 new-generation blood thinner drug was very highly regarded by consumers since it accorded them more freedoms than the preceding types of blood-thinning drugs. It was FDA approved to treat patients recovering from hip or knee replacement surgeries as well as those suffering from deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, and a common heart condition known as atrial fibrillation. However, since that time, and in addition to the lawsuits filed, Xarelto has become the focus a number of investigations related to the clinical trials in which a defective medical device was used.

Another development and probably one of the most ominous for the future of Xarelto are the two “black box” warnings the drug has received from the FDA. These warnings are the harshest warnings that can be issued to a product prior to its potential removal from the consumer market completely.

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