Yaz, Yasmin Lawyer Files Suit Against Bayer
Another Yaz lawsuit was filed on November 17, 2011, in California. This time the plaintiff is Allison Zelinski; she has joined an ongoing coordinated litigation that is taking place in California Superior Court, Los Angeles. Defendants in the litigation include Bayer Corporation, Berlix Laboratories and various others that have been linked to the manufacturing and distribution of Yaz and Yasmin oral contraceptives.
Zelinski’s case has been coordinated as a tag along case to the larger proceeding that has various lawsuit plaintiffs claiming that they weren’t properly warned about the serious adverse side effects linked to the drospirenone-based birth control pills. Many of the plaintiffs have developed blood clots after taking Yaz. Blood clots are serious side effects that can lead to other potentially fatal conditions, such as heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary embolisms and deep vein thrombosis.
Yaz lawsuits against Bayer are nothing new. In fact, up to 10,000 lawsuits have been filed against the company with no end in sight yet. In those lawsuits, Bayer has been the defendant in the majority of them. The company has been accused of hiding the negative side effects of Yaz from the public and healthcare professionals alike. The FDA even ordered Bayer to change its marketing campaign to include stronger mention of the blood clot risks after various studies have proven how dangerous Yaz and Yasmin are. But still the company refuses to admit that Yaz increases the chances of women developing dangerous blood clots more than older, non-drospirenone-based pills do.
Bayer claims that their own study shows that Yaz and Yasmin aren’t any more likely to cause blood clots than pills that are composed of levonorgestrel. However, the thousands of plaintiffs in various Yaz lawsuits would strongly disagree. So far, there is no telling how long it will take before the many lawsuits are over, especially since the bellwether trials (which were supposed to begin next week) have been postponed. However, Bayer is likely going to suffer major financial losses before all the court dates are finished.
