March 01, 2013
A Florida federal judge found Thursday that Hoffman-La Roche Inc. adequately warned a user of the acne treatment Accutane about the risk of bowel injury, leaving only one suit remaining in the multidistrict litigation over the drug.
February 15, 2013
Hoffman-La Roche Inc. on Thursday defeated 40 lawsuits over injuries allegedly caused by its acne treatment Accutane because of the plaintiffs' failure to find an expert witness, leaving only two cases remaining in multidistrict litigation in Florida over the drug.
January 11, 2013
Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. on Thursday asked a Florida federal judge to toss 40 suits from multidistrict litigation alleging the pharmaceutical company's acne treatment Accutane causes irritable bowel disease because the plaintiffs have failed to find an expert witness to support their claims.
August 07, 2012
A federal judge in Florida on Monday wiped out claims from a man diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease after taking a generic version of Accutane, a blow to multidistrict litigation involving Barr Laboratories Inc. and the latest case derailed by the U.S. Supreme Court's Pliva v. Mensing decision.
July 24, 2012
Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. adequately warned an Accutane user about the risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease while on the acne drug, a Florida federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation ruled Tuesday, a decision that could affect much larger Accutane litigation in New Jersey.
July 10, 2012
Barr Laboratories Inc. on Monday argued that failure-to-warn claims from a man diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease after using generic Accutane are blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court's Pliva Inc. v. Mensing ruling, as it sought to escape multidistrict litigation over the acne drug.
August 12, 2009
For the second time in two years, a district judge has thrown out the testimony of the plaintiffs' expert witness in an ongoing products liability case over acne treatment Accutane.
October 16, 2007
Claims continue to be stripped from the Accutane multidistrict litigation, with a judge on Monday dismissing Swiss defendants F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. and Roche Holding Ltd. from the case.
September 21, 2007
In a state case in the multidistrict product liability litigation over Accutane, a judge on Friday denied defendant Hoffmann-La Roche’s motion for summary judgment, clearing the way for the trial to kick off on Monday.