1,100 Yaz Injury Lawsuits with More Expected
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Annual reports can be long and boring and are often a waste of the paper they are printed on, but for persevering readers buried deep in the pages there is sometimes an interesting kernel of information to be found. On page 243 of the Bayer 2009 Annual Report there is such a detail.
Bayer, makers of the popular, but problematic birth control drug Yaz and Yasmin wrote that there were,
about 1,100 lawsuits pending in the United States served on Bayer on behalf of persons alleged to have suffered personal injuries, some of them fatal, from the use of Bayer’s oral contraceptive products Yasmin®, yaz® and / or Ocella, a generic version of Yasmin® distributed by Barr Laboratories, Inc. in the u.s. market. Plaintiffs seek compensatory and punitive damages, claiming, in particular, that Bayer knew or should have known the alleged risks and should be held liable for having failed to disclose them or adequately warn users of Yasmin® and yaz®.
Yaz and Yasmin are listed as Bayer's Best Selling Pharmaceutical Product on page 60, with sales of US$1.7 billion which is a 4.7% increase from 2008. You can bet that Bayer isn't going to back down quietly from this fight and in fact they state, "Additional lawsuits are anticipated. Bayer believes that it has meritorious defenses and intends to defend itself vigorously."
If you have suffered gall bladder disease, blood clots or pulmonary embolisms, stroke, deep vein thrombosis or other injury that you think is a side effect related to taking the birth control Yaz or Yasmin, please contact a Yaz lawyer for help in representing your case. You cannot take on Bayer by yourself and need an attorney who can help get your voice heard.
