{"id":2879,"date":"2014-01-15T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2014-01-15T07:43:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T13:43:09","slug":"u-s-district-court-orders-1-million-sanctions-discovery-abuses-predaxa-drug-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-district-court-orders-1-million-sanctions-discovery-abuses-predaxa-drug-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. District Court Orders $1 Million as Sanctions in Discovery Abuses in Predaxa Drug Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal\">Federal District Court Judge Hon. David R. Herndon of the Southern District of Illinois has ordered that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boehringer-ingelheim.com\/\">Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (BIPI) <\/a>pay $1 million in sanctions for discovery abuses in the multidistrict litigation (MDL) involving the oral anticoagulant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pradaxa.com\/\">Predaxa<\/a>.<span>\u00a0<\/span>This same U.S. Federal District Court, also in the Southern District of Illinois, is where many of the country\u2019s <span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilsd.uscourts.gov\/documents\/mdl2100\/2100FAQ.pdf\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-weight: normal\">Yasmin and YAZ (Drospirenone) <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>birth control injury cases are being handled; also in an MDL. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Judge Herndon found that BIPI, the maker of Predaxa, had chosen not to produce thousands of documents to the plaintiffs, which the judge determined was bad-faith conduct.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to the order, BIPI and its German parent company were unable to explain why it chose not to produce critical documents and communications by a deadline set by the judge.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The deadline was in June 2012.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-district-court-orders-1-million-sanctions-discovery-abuses-predaxa-drug-lawsuits\/#more-2879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal District Court Judge Hon. 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(BIPI) pay $1 million in sanctions for discovery abuses in the multidistrict litigation (MDL) involving the oral anticoagulant Predaxa.\u00a0This same U.S. Federal District Court, also in the Southern District of Illinois, is where many [&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":[67,38,103,51,106,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-actions","category-federal-law","category-mass-tort-cases","category-pharmaceutical-injuries","category-predaxa-injury-cases","category-product-defect-litigation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S. District Court Orders $1 Million as Sanctions in Discovery Abuses in Predaxa Drug Lawsuits &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Federal District Court Judge Hon. 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