{"id":1544,"date":"2013-06-20T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2013-06-20T08:21:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T13:21:25","slug":"6-5-million-verdict-in-actos-bladder-cancer-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/6-5-million-verdict-in-actos-bladder-cancer-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"$6.5 Million Verdict in Actos Bladder Cancer Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There are more than 3,000 active <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rxlist.com\/actos-drug.htm\">Actos<\/a> bladder lawsuits pending nationwide.In one of the first to go to trial, a jury returned a $6.5 million verdict against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takeda.us\/\">Takeda Pharmaceuticals American, Inc.<\/a>, the company that makes and markets the diabetes drug, Actos.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The plaintiff in this case developed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/cancertopics\/types\/bladder\">bladder cancer <\/a>after being prescribed Actos for his diabetes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The jury found that Takeda chose not to warn patients and physicians of the risks associated with using Actos.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The jury\u2019s verdict of $6.5 million was made up of the following damages: $5 million to the plaintiff and $1.5 million to his wife for loss of consortium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The plaintiff was prescribed Actos for his diabetes by his family physician.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The plaintiff took Actos for more than 4 years before developing bladder cancer in 2011.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The presiding judge ordered that this case go to trial when it was found that the plaintiff was very ill and not likely to survive even another year.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The trial, which started in February, lasted nearly 2 months.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/6-5-million-verdict-in-actos-bladder-cancer-trial\/#more-1544\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are more than 3,000 active Actos bladder lawsuits pending nationwide.In one of the first to go to trial, a jury returned a $6.5 million verdict against Takeda Pharmaceuticals American, Inc., the company that makes and markets the diabetes drug, Actos.\u00a0 The plaintiff in this case developed bladder cancer after being prescribed Actos for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[51,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pharmaceutical-injuries","category-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$6.5 Million Verdict in Actos Bladder Cancer Trial &#8212; 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