$6.5 Million Actos Jury Award Overturned by Judge

Staff Writer | May 9th, 2013

Actos Lawsuit Cash AdvanceA California man was recently awarded $6.5 million by a jury who found that Actos, a drug for the treatment of type II diabetes, did not carry adequate warnings of the side effects and risks of long-term use. The case, the first of over 3,000 Actos lawsuits to be tried, was expedited because the plaintiff, who is terminally ill, was not expected to live long enough to undergo a lengthy trial process.

Defendant Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., maker of Actos, moved to vacate the jury’s decision and convinced the judge trying the case to throw out the verdict. The plaintiff’s lawyers are now appealing the judge’s decision and there is no timetable on how long the appeals process is expected to take. There are over 200 Actos plaintiffs waiting for their day in the same California court, many of whom could now benefit from an Actos lawsuit cash advance.

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In addition to the California cases, there are 1,500 lawsuits against Takeda pending in Illinois state court and 1,200 in U.S. federal court. The federal cases have been consolidated before a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana and are currently in the opening stages of discovery. The judge has set a rapid timetable meant to resolve the cases in a timely fashion, but the first of the 1,200 lawsuits she will oversee will still not begin trial until early next year, will last for months, and may also include an appeals process. The second trial is scheduled to begin in April 2014, and subsequent trials or settlement talks will not even start until over a year from now.

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