First Yaz Jury Trial to Start in January
It has been announced that the first Yaz jury trial against Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc., is going to go to trial in Pennsylvania state court in January 2012. Judge Sandra Mazer Moss is scheduled to hear the pre-trial issues on Monday, September 26.
The plaintiff in this Yaz lawsuit, Petrina Moore, claims that Bayer’s controversial birth control pill has caused her lasting injuries. She is also claiming that Bayer didn’t properly warn her of the potential injuries prior to her taking the pill. The woman’s attorney says, “Bayer failed to warn patients and doctors, we allege, that Yaz poses a greater risk of serious injuries than earlier generation birth control pills. Bayer will have to answer allegations that its blockbuster birth control drug Yaz caused a thirty-five-year-old woman’s severe and near fatal pulmonary emboli, cardiopulmonary arrest, and horrible blood clots in her legs.”
Moore’s complaint is charging that Yaz is sold to the public without any proper warning of the drug’s higher risk factor of injuries than other birth control pills. Some of the risks associated with taking Yaz include blood clots, deep vein thrombosis, strokes, heart attacks, gallbladder disease and thromboembolism.
Of this, the plaintiff’s lawyer says, "The FDA's adverse event database for Yaz reveals a very high number of serious adverse events associated with these drugs, including strokes, heart attacks, blood clots and deaths in young women."
Research has proven the truth of the claims being made against Bayer’s potential dangers, and thousands of lawsuits have been filed because of it. Other lawsuits are also claiming that Bayer knowingly advertised the drug’s off-label uses (the company claims the drug cures everything from acne to severe PMS) while downplaying the pill’s risks.
