A judge has paused a class action on behalf of 6,000 women allegedly injured by defective pelvic mesh devices pending determination of an application by Astora Health for a stay of the proceedings following its bankruptcy filing.
The state of Victoria has brought criminal action against the DHHS over its handling of the hotel quarantine debacle in 2020 and wants to push off separate class action proceedings until the charges are heard.
A woman allegedly injured by a defective pelvic mesh product has won her bid to bring a lawsuit against bankrupt Astora Women’s Health after she opted out of a class action, which promised her no more than $10,000 under a proposed settlement.
The lead applicant in a class action against Bayer over its Essure contraceptive device has admonished the drug maker’s request for her medical records since the age of 14, saying it had “no basis” and was a “fishing exercise”.
The federal government will face a class action on behalf of disabled individuals age 65 and over who have been excluded from the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
The Australian unit of Mylan is challenging the ATO’s rejection of a $48 million deduction for 2020 in the generic drug company’s latest spat with the tax office over interest on loans to fund its $1.2 billion acquisition of generic drug maker Alphapharm.
German biotech Fresenius Kabi has struck back at Samsung Bioepis’s latest attack on the validity of its patents for a liquid formulation of top selling immunosuppressant drug Humira, accusing the Korean company of causing its sales to flag by infringing the patent.
Johnson & Johnson Medical and unit Ethicon have agreed to pay $300 million to settle two class actions brought by Shine Lawyers on behalf of Australian women implanted with pelvic mesh and tape devices.
Apple has been sued by a microneedling pen company that alleges it suffered loss when the tech giant removing its app from the App Store based on bogus claims of trade mark infringement.
Two alleged victims of a former Sydney doctor who pretended to be a plastic surgeon and performed breast augmentation surgeries that left them injured cannot make claims against Avant Insurance, an appeals court has ruled.