Vanderhyde Law works with law firms and clients throughout the country and has helped thousands of individuals and families receive justice against some of the largest and most powerful corporations/organizations in the world. Below is a list of some of the cases we have assisted people in.
This litigation is ongoing. After the blockbuster Grand Jury Report from the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, the Catholic Church has been rocked with an avalanche of lawsuits regarding the sexual abuse of minors. A nationwide movement has begun to address this epidemic, including changing the statute of limitations in states, which would allow survivors more time to bring cases against their abuser. Other changes include individual dioceses across the country opening up compensation funds for victims and starting to come clean with the names of abusers with credible accusations of sexual abuse.
Eighteen years ago the John Jay Report was released, and it shocked the conscience. This was a comprehensive study commissioned by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and it found that some 11,000 allegations had been made against 4,392 priests in the United States. The true number of victims is hard to determine, but likely much larger than the report indicated. To date, 151 dioceses and 23 religious orders have released lists of clergy with credible accusations of sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults.
IN RE: Actos (Pioglitazone) Products Liability Litigation
MDL No.2299 - United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
Claims arising from the use of Actos, a prescription medication approved for use in the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Plaintiffs alleged that individuals who use Actos face an increased risk of developing bladder cancer. Plaintiffs further alleged that the defendants concealed their knowledge of this risk and failed to provide adequate warnings to consumers and the health care community. Defendants denied all allegations of fault.
IN RE: OIL SPILL by the OIL RIG "DEEPWATER HORIZON" in the GULF OF MEXICO, on APRIL 20, 2010
MDL No. 2179 - United States District Court - Eastern District of Louisiana
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig began to leak crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. By the time the leak was stopped, hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil had been released into the Gulf and oil had washed up onto the shores in at least four Gulf States, making it one of the largest spills in United States history. Defendants included British Petroleum, Transocean (which owned the Deepwater horizon drilling rig) and Halliburton (the well contractor).
Plaintiffs’ claims focused upon lost business profits and individual income losses, environmental damage, property damage, health problems and risks from oil and chemical dispersants, injuries and health issues from cleanup, and injury claims by rig workers and their families.
In RE: DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., ASR Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation
MDL 2197 - United States District Court - Northern District of Ohio
The actions shared factual issues as to whether DePuy’s ASR XL Acetabular Hip System, a device used in hip replacement surgery, was defectively designed and/or manufactured, and whether DePuy failed to provide adequate warnings concerning the device, which DePuy recalled along with another ASR device, the ASR Hip Resurfacing System, in August 2010.
IN RE: Avandia Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation
MDL 1871 - United States District Court - Eastern District of Pennsylvania
The typical case involved claims by a plaintiff against defendant SmithKlineBeecham Corp., doing business as GlaxoSmithKline ("GSK"). Actions arose from allegations that certain diabetes drugs manufactured by GSK -- Avandia and/or two sister drugs containing Avandia (Avandamet and Avandaryl) -- caused an increased risk of heart attack and other physical injury, and that GSK failed to provide adequate warnings concerning that risk." GSK denied these allegations.
In Re: Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation
MDL 13-2441 - United States District Court - District of Minnesota
This multidistrict litigation consolidated for pretrial purposes all federal cases alleging that dual modular hip replacement prostheses sold under the names "Rejuvenate®" and "ABG II" were defective and have caused injury to the plaintiffs. The defendants in this litigation included, but were not limited to, Howmedica Osteonics Corp d/b/a Stryker Orthopaedics, Stryker Corporation, and Stryker Sales Corporation.
In RE: Gadolinium Contrast Dyes Products Liability Litigation
MDL 1909 - United States District Court Northern District of Ohio
Plaintiffs alleged that they suffered substantial injuries caused by the use, in magnetic resonance imaging procedures performed on them, of gadolinium-based contrast agents that were manufactured, marketed and/or sold by Defendants.
IN RE: Wright Medical Technology, Inc., Conserve Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation
MDL No. 2329, a federal multi-district litigation venued in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia; and MDL No. 4710, a coordinated proceeding venued in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Los Angeles Division.
IN RE: POWER MORCELLATOR PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION,
MDL 2652 - United States District Court - District of Kansas
Women who had hysterectomies and fibroid removals with power morcellator devices filed lawsuits against manufacturers claiming the devices spread uterine cancer. Litigation included the following defendants: Johnson & Johnson; Johnson & Johnson Services; Ethicon, Inc.; and Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. (Collectively together, Ethicon Defendants).
Individual and Wrongful Death Cases Stemming from Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma against the following defendants:
A.W. Chesteron Company, Crane Co, H.B. Fuller Company, Union Carbide Corporation, individually and f/k/a Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Company, Certainteed Corporation, Uniroyal Inc., Crown, Cork and Seal, USA, Inc. John Crane, Inc. f/k/a Crane Packing Company, Georgia Pacific LLC f/k/a Georgia-Pacific Corp, DAP, Inc., Ingersoll-Rand Company, Goulds Pumps Inc., Sterling Fluid Systems (USA) LLC, individually, and as successor in interest to Indian head, Inc, Gardner Denver, Inc., Joy Technologies, Inc., IMO Industries, Inc., ITT Industries, Inc. Individually, and as Successor in Interest to Bell & Gossett Pump Co, Aurora Pump Company, FMC, Individually, and as Successor in Interest to Chicago Pump Company, Nagle Pumps, Inc. Armstrong international, Inc. Spirax Sarco, Inc., General Electric Company, CBS Corporation, a Pennsylvania Corporation, f/k/a Westinghouse Electric Corporation, FLOWSERVE US, Inc. a.k.a. Flowserve Pump Corp Individually, and as Successor in Interest to Edward Valve and Manufacturing Company, Anderson, Greenwood & CO, Grinnell Corporation f/k/a Grinnell Fire Protection Systems, Inc., Grinnell LLC, Mueller Company, LLC d/b/a Mueller Flow, LLC, Mueller Company, Henry Pratt Company, Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation, Riley Power, Inc. f/k/a Riley Stoker Corporation, A.O. Smith Corporation, Trance U.S. Inc., Oakfabco, Inc., Carrier Corporation, and Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
In one of the largest mass tort cases in history, claims were brought for the following injuries: erosion through vaginal wall or soft tissues, organ perforation, urinary tract infections, nerve damage or chronic pain in pelvic or abdominal organs, pelvic organ prolapse (POP), and stress urinary incontinence.
IN RE: C. R. Bard, Inc., Pelvic Repair System Products Liability Litigation
MDL No. 2187 - United States District Court - Southern District of West Virginia
IN RE: Boston Scientific Corp. Pelvic Repair System Products Liability Litigation
MDL No. 2326 - United States District Court - Southern District of West Virginia
IN RE: Ethicon, Inc., Pelvic Repair System Products Liability Litigation
MDL no. 2327 - United States District Court - Southern District of West Virginia
IN RE: American Medical Systems, Inc., Pelvic Repair System Products Liability Litigation
MDL No. 2325 - United States District Court - Southern District of West Virginia
IN RE: Coloplast Corp. Pelvic Support Systems Products Liability Litigation
MDL No. 2387 - United States District Court - Southern District of Ohio
IN RE: Davol, Inc./C.R. Bard, Inc., Polypropylene Hernia Mesh Products Liability Litigation
MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION 2846 - United States District Court – Southern District of Ohio
IN RE: Biomet M2A Magnum Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation
MDL 2391 - United States District Court - Northern District of Indiana
The cases in this litigation primarily involve alleged defects in Biomet’s M2a Magnum system of hip implant products. Plaintiffs’ claims focused upon the metal-on-metal design of the M2a Magnum system and the alleged propensity of the M2a Magnum devices to generate high
levels of metal ions, cause metallosis in the surrounding tissue, and/or fail early.
IN RE: ZIMMER DUROM HIP CUP PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION
MDL No. 2158 United States District Court - District of New Jersey
In Re: Da Vinci Robotic Surgical System Products Liability Litigation MDL No 2381. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation declined to consolidate the suits by plaintiffs alleging injuries from Da Vinci surgical robots. Cases were handled on an individual basis.
Plaintiffs claimed that pain pump medical devices that strap to the shoulder and deliver anesthetics through a catheter directly to the shoulder and caused damage to cartilage in the shoulder joint, a condition known as post-arthroscopic glenohumeral chondrolysis, or PAGCL.
Hernia mesh lawsuits against manufacturer Covidien proceeded on an individual basis and were not consolidated under MDL. Mesh devices named in the lawsuits include Covidien’s Parietex Composite Mesh, Parietex ProGrip Mesh and Parietex Surgical Mesh.