Robert J. Boumis  |  July 24, 2014

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Actos bladder cancerA widow filed an Actos bladder cancer lawsuit against Takeda Pharmaceuticals, alleging her husband’s use of the drug led to his death.

Plaintiff Patsy R. Martin filed the Actos bladder cancer lawsuit on behalf of her husband, Donald Martin, who allegedly died after using Actos. After taking Actos, the lawsuit states, Martin developed, and eventually died from, bladder cancer. Martin’s lawsuit seeks damages for medical costs, final expenses, and wrongful death.

Actos is a drug designed to help control type-2 diabetes. In diabetes, patients lose the ability to control the amount of sugar (glucose) in their blood. Though humans need sugar to survive, it can build to toxic levels in diabetes, poisoning and damaging various tissues. This can lead to blindness, kidney problems, and even gangrene in the extremities. Drugs like Actos are designed to help control blood sugar levels, preventing diabetics from developing the serious complications associated with the disease.

Martin’s lawsuit makes claims found in hundreds of other Actos bladder cancer lawsuits. This includes the claim that the earliest clinical trials, dating back to the early 2000s, indicated that the drug increased the risk of developing bladder cancer. Eventually, enough evidence mounted that regulatory agencies from various countries took action. In 2011, the European Medical Agency and Germany’s Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices suspended the use of the drugs. Around the same time, French National Pharmacovigilance Committee and U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued warnings about the drug, though it took several months for the FDA to suspend its use. Martin’s Actos side effects lawsuit alleges that based on these facts, the makers of Actos should have known about the risks allegedly associated with the drug.

This Actos bladder cancer lawsuit has joined others in a kind of group litigation called a multidistrict litigation, or MDL. In MDLs, similar individual lawsuits are grouped together into a single coordinated legal action. MDLs are similar to class action lawsuits in some ways. In both MDLs and class action lawsuits, a number of plaintiffs allege that they have suffered similar harm at the hands of the same defendant. The main difference is that class action lawsuit start out as group lawsuits, while MDLs are created by combining similar individual lawsuits.

The Actos Bladder Cancer Lawsuit is Donald Martin, et al., v. Takeda Pharmaceuticals, et al., Case No. 6:14-cv-01082, within the MDL In Re: Actos Product Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2299, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.

In general, Actos lawsuits are filed individually by each plaintiff and are not class actions.

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