Class Action Lawsuit: Actos Lawsuits

Tuesday 4 December 2012

Actos Lawsuits

Since hitting the market in the late 1990s, doctors have prescribed Actos to millions of type 2 diabetes patients. Although the drug does help with diabetes, medical studies show a link between Actos and serious, life-threatening side effects, including heart failure and bladder cancer. As more studies reveal more evidence about Actos triggering these life-altering side effects, an increasing number of people who suffered complications are filing an Actos lawsuit against the drug’s manufacturer.

To date, hundreds of Actos lawsuits are pending in U.S. federal court, and other cases are also being filed in state courts. The number keeps climbing because of widespread exposure to Actos’ dangers, and some observers hint that the number of lawsuits could climb as high as 10,000. As a result, a judicial panel has ordered the transfer of all federal Actos Lawsuits to a single court in Louisiana. The court is the central location for processing and handling federal Actos litigation, known as Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) No. 2299