'Dangerous Drugs' Category
By Simmons Hanly Conroy | January 7, 2022
Cities, Towns and Local Communities Have Until Jan. 26 to Sign Up to Receive Access to Opioid Settlement Funds
As the countdown to the new year begins, the deadline for communities to join national opioid settlements with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and drug distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson is quickly… Read More
By Simmons Hanly Conroy | December 10, 2020
Common Prescription Bladder Medication Elmiron® Linked to Severe Vision Loss
Simmons Hanly Conroy is no longer accepting Elmiron® cases. In recent months, the common prescription drug Elmiron®, which is used to treat a painful and common bladder condition, has fallen under… Read More
By Simmons Hanly Conroy | May 3, 2019
New Opioid Strike Force Charges 31 Rural Doctors Over Deadly Prescription Practices and Health Care Fraud
Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released information about the “largest prescription opioid enforcement effort ever undertaken.” Armed federal agents carried out search warrants and arrested dozens of medical professionals… Read More
By Simmons Hanly Conroy | January 30, 2019
New York City Includes CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, WalMart & Sackler Family in Opioid Lawsuit
Americans did not take billions of addictive opioid pills by accident. At every level of the pharmaceutical supply chain, from pharma executives to pharmacy managers, people who had a responsibility to look… Read More
By Simmons Hanly Conroy | April 4, 2018
Verdict: AbbVie, Makers of AndroGel, Ordered to Pay $3.2 Million in Retrial
An Illinois jury on Monday ordered AbbVie Inc. to pay $3.2 million in a retrial after the company’s AndroGel product caused an Oregon man’s heart attack. AndroGel is a testosterone-based gel medication… Read More
By Simmons Hanly Conroy | January 30, 2018
Opioid Lawyers Prepare to Step in for Government on Ending the National Crisis
A year since its annual death toll surpassed that of the entire Vietnam war, three months since it was declared a public health emergency and mere weeks since it was named a… Read More
By Simmons Hanly Conroy | January 5, 2018
Communities Sue Pill-Makers as Overdose Deaths Contribute to Decline in American Life Expectancy
American adults expect that, on average, they have a good chance of living longer, healthier lives than their parents. They hope their own kids can say the same thing. For the second… Read More
By Simmons Hanly Conroy | October 13, 2017
AbbVie Ordered to Pay $140 Million For Not Disclosing Dangers of Low-T Drug
On October 5th, a federal court in Chicago reached a verdict that found drug company AbbVie liable to pay a plaintiff over $140 million due to a heart attack allegedly caused by… Read More
By Simmons Hanly Conroy | September 20, 2017
New Study Underscores Long-Term Damage Communities Will Suffer Because of Big Pharma’s Opioid Spree
American communities that have been hollowed out by the ongoing opioid epidemic are only now starting to come to grips with the scope of the damage. While the death toll is staggering,… Read More
By Simmons Hanly Conroy | August 22, 2017
After $417M Loss, Johnson & Johnson Still Refuses to Acknowledge Suffering of Misinformed Talc Consumers
In the first talc trial to be held before a state jury in California, multinational pharma giant Johnson & Johnson lost $417 million in compensatory and punitive damages to a Los Angeles… Read More
