{"id":1243,"date":"2013-11-18T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagomedicalmalpracticeattorney-blog.com\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2019-10-17T06:08:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:08:08","slug":"actos-trials-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/actos-trials-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Actos Trials Under Way in Illinois; Juries in California and Maryland Reach Verdicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<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 class=\"MsoNormal\">There are more than 2,000 cases filed in the Actos Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) pending before a United States District Court judge in the Western District of Louisiana.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The Actos MDL bellwether cases involve identifying two of the best plaintiff cases and a third case selected by the defendant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takeda.us\/\">Takeda Pharmaceuticals<\/a>.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Takeda is the manufacturer of Actos, which has been associated with bladder cancer.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Actos is in a class of insulin-sensitizing drugs known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thiazolidinedione\">Thiazolidinediones<\/a>, which was approved to treat Type II diabetes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Western District of Louisiana bellwether trials are scheduled to start Jan. 27, 2014; \u00a0a second will begin in April 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There are about 3,000 cases pending in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The bellwether process here is under way.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The cases in Chicago\u2019s Circuit Court are being handled by Judge Deborah Dooling.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/actos-trials-underway\/#more-1243\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are more than 2,000 cases filed in the Actos Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) pending before a United States District Court judge in the Western District of Louisiana.\u00a0The Actos MDL bellwether cases involve identifying two of the best plaintiff cases and a third case selected by the defendant Takeda Pharmaceuticals.\u00a0Takeda is the manufacturer of Actos, which [&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":[38,22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actos-cases","category-pharmaceutical-errors","category-product-liability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Actos Trials Under Way in Illinois; 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