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With over 2,000 Mirena lawsuits seeking product liability and thousands other potential litigations under consideration, manufacturer Bayer Healthcare is set to face one of its biggest legal fights in the United States. The mounting number of Mirena lawsuits is sure to create more troubles for the drug maker already feeling the pinch of 12,000 product liability lawsuits filed over side effects of its Yaz, Yasmin and other oral contraceptives. The T-shaped contraceptive with a polyethylene frame is no more a popular pregnancy preventative and is being reported by consumers for causing about 50,000 adverse events in the last five years.
Mirena Lawsuit Federal MDL
At least 1,810 Mirena lawsuits were filed by the first week of April 2014, and the number is expected to go up as thousands of women are consulting lawyers on “personal injuries stemming from the intrauterine device,” according to the latest stockholder’s report of Bayer Pharmaceuticals. There are two pretrial multidistrict litigation consolidations established at federal and state levels for Mirena migration, perforation, internal injury, and other side effect claims. A new request has been filed recently seeking an exclusive federal MDL for Mirena brain injury lawsuits.
About a thousand Mirena lawsuits are centralized under the federal judicial system at a New York southern district court. A majority of these Mirena lawsuits seek product liability on the ground that the defective design of the birth control IUD allows it to displace and migrate causing internal perforations and injuries. Judge Cathy Seibel presides over the pretrial proceedings and 24 litigations are earmarked to form “Initial Disposition Pool.” Twelve of these will go for bellwether trial in the second half of 2015.
Mirena Lawsuit New Jersey MDL
Judge Brian R. Martinotti of New Jersey presides over more than 850 Mirena lawsuits filed in the state. Montville of New Jersey is home to the US headquarters of Bayer Healthcare, and this led to the filing of many Mirena lawsuits against the company in the state courts. The state MDL panel selected the Bergen County Superior Court judge to centralize all litigations filed across the state and ensure coordinated discovery as well as convenience in proceedings. Sixteen Mirena lawsuits have been selected as part of the “Initial Disposition Pool.”
Mirena Lawsuits: Major IUD Side Effects
- Device displacement and failure to check pregnancy
- Mirena migration and internal injuries
- Uterus perforation and hysterectomy
- Post-use pregnancy disorders and miscarriages
- Ectopic pregnancy
- Ovarian cysts
- Pelvic inflammatory diseases and streptococcal sepsis
- Non-stroke neurological disorder
- Vaginal and genitourinary infections
Mirena Lawsuits: New MDL Sought Over Brain Injury
On May 27, 2014, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation was approached by nine plaintiffs seeking a second Mirena lawsuit MDL. The separate consolidation was sought for Mirena lawsuits filed for brain injury side effects. Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a neurological disorder attributed to enhanced intracranial pressure inside the skull. When the cerebrospinal fluid level shot up due to levonorgestrel released by Mirena IUD, users suffer from pain in the brain, inflammation of the optical disk, migraine, and vision disorder. About a dozen of such litigations are filed by women who experienced IIH while using Mirena IUD and at least 60 more such litigations are expected soon.
If you experienced adverse Mirena side effects, required surgery or have a loved one who suffered death following the implantation of Mirena, you may have a potential Mirena lawsuit. Please also visit our Mirena Lawsuit Information Source.
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