Waiting for Yaz Settlement Amounts

Drugmaker Bayer has seen numerous Yaz lawsuits being filed against them throughout the nation. However, there is currently no word of any Yaz injury settlement being disclosed.

Bayer Faces Thousands of Lawsuits

As of November 2010 there were thousands of individual lawsuits filed against the manufacturer of Yaz and Yasmin oral contraceptives. This number continues to rise today. Experts believe that at some point Bayer pharmaceutical company will be forced to reach a settlement with as many as 25,000 Yaz lawsuit plaintiffs. There is not a class-action Yaz lawsuit underway at this time, and the separate cases have been consolidated into a single multi-district litigation (MDL) process.

Yaz Trials Will Begin in September 2011

The first trial in this consolidated MDL may take place in U.S. federal court as soon as September 2011. At the present time Bayer shows every sign that they intend to fight these cases and that they are not open to settling any of the Yaz or Yasmin lawsuits. Despite these indications, our experienced Yaz lawsuit and injury attorneys believe that Bayer will start to negotiate for individual Yasmin or Yaz injury lawsuit claims, or even make plans to settle international Yaz injury claims, as litigation nears its trial date. The Yasmin and Yaz injury lawsuits have been consolidated for pretrial proceedings in the federal courts, and this has also occurred in several states.
In the interests of coordinating the management of the cases throughout discovery, and during the bellwether trials, as well as the management of any efforts to negotiate settlements, all of the Yaz and Yasmin injury lawsuits filed anywhere in the nation are being processed through the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. In a similar fashion, state court cases that were originally filed in Pennsylvania or New Jersey have also been organized under consolidated management. An important element in this coordinated element is that both courts are highly likely to encourage Bayer and the plaintiffs to talk about settlement amounts for the Yaz or Yasmin lawsuits before any of the cases actually reach trial.

Unacceptable Practices by Bayer

In these Yaz and Yasmin injury lawsuits, claims are made that Bayer did not do sufficient research on Yaz and Yasmin oral contraceptives. Claims are also made that they failed to properly warn women of the unusually high risks of forming potentially life-threatening side effects which include the following:

• Liver cancer, liver tumors, severe liver bleeding
• Breast cancer
• Cerebral hemorrhage
• High blood pressure
• Total loss of vision
• Blood clots
• Strokes
• Heart attacks
• Gall bladder disease
• Pulmonary embolism
• Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)

In the beginning, some bellwether cases will be chosen to act as representatives for the variety of issues that will be brought up during litigation. The results in these early cases may give rise to a settlement for other cases, based on how jurors determine value on the plaintiffs’ damages for these injury claims.