Honorable U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon Sets Xarelto Lawsuit Bellwether Court Proceedings For Early 2017

July 14, 2016 – – TheProductLawyers.com reports on an update in the on-going Xarelto multidistrict litigation in Louisiana. MDL No. 2592 currently has 2800+ cases that are being overseen by U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon in the Eastern District of Louisiana. The first two bellwether trials will be held on February 6th and March 13th of 2017. In the following months, the remaining two bellwether trials will be heard on April 24th and May 30th respectively.

Shortly after the formation of MDL No. 2592, a mass tort program was created by the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania consolidating an additional 550 cases. Similar to the MDL in Louisiana, the Xarelto manufacturers Bayer AG and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subdivision of Johnson and Johnson have been named as defendants in all on-going cases.

Common allegations from various plaintiffs include that the anticoagulant places patients at an increased risk for dangerous, uncontrollable bleeding episodes. Xarelto has also been linked to strokes, blood clots, brain hemorrhages, and gastrointestinal bleeding, causing most plaintiffs to claim that Bayer and Janssen failed to properly warn the public of the potential consequences resulting from the drug.

The early 2017 bellwether trials are expected to provide plaintiffs and their lawyers with a more accurate outlook of how jurors and judges will evaluate certain testimonies or evidence in future trials. On June 11, 2016, the presiding judge ordered that the plaintiffs and defendants each to select 20 cases, for a total of 40 suits, to create a bellwether pool, after which, the Louisiana judge will choose 4 trial-ready cases to be heard in the Spring 2017 bellwether trials.

The attorneys of Banville Law, the firm behind TheProductLawyers.com, are offering complimentary consultations to anyone who suffered injury or hospitalization after a bleed while on Xarelto. For more information about this release or the Xarelto litigation call 888-997-3792.

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