August 2008: NuvaRing MDL Created In Federal Court System, Eastern District Of Missouri

Ruling By Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation Will Result In Transfer Of All NuvaRing Federal Court Cases

(Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com)

On August 22, 2008 the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPMDL) granted a petition filed by plaintiffs in 11 NuvaRing federal court lawsuits seeking creation of a NuvaRing multidistrict litigation (MDL). 

These NuvaRing lawsuits involve blood clot-related injuries such as pulmonary embolism (PE), deep vein thrombosis (DVT), strokes, and heart attacks allegedly caused by use of the NuvaRing birth control product. 

By means of this August 2008 NuvaRing MDL order -- giving rise to In re: NuvaRing Products Liability Litigation, No. 08-md-1964, JPML -- these pending NuvaRing cases and all future NuvaRing filed lawsuits filed in the federal court system will be centralized for discovery purposes in the Eastern District of Missouri before Judge Rodney W. Sippel.

We will continue to monitor the NuvaRing MDL litigation and report significant developments, here, as they become known.

P.S.  Learn more about NuvaRing and its serious side effects by visiting the NuvaRing Information page over at our Drug Injury Law site.  (9/16/08)

Comments

[Tom Lamb]

J.O.:

I appreciate you providing a link to this North American Thrombosis Forum for the benefit of women like your daughter and other people who have developed a blood clot leading to deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE).

I hope your daugther is recovering well from her NuvaRing-related blood clot event.

Thanks for reading Drug Injury Watch.

Tom Lamb

[J. O.]

I am glad they are going through with the MDL and hope Organon is found liable but there is more that needs to be done for victims that survived (my daughter is one of them).Women need to educate themselves to DVT and PE now that they are at a higer risk for suffering from another one. Here is a link to the National Thromosis Forum. It has valuable info and has links to other sites with more info.
http://www.natfonline.org