Johnson & Johnson is now facing 500 lawsuits related to deaths and injuries caused by the Ortho Evra birth control patch. As the company’s most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission notes, “These claimants seek substantial compensatory and, where available, punitive damages.” (more…)

The Food and Drug Administration has announced an update to the warning label of the Ortho Evra birth control patch. The new label warns that users could face twice the risk of blood clots and other serious birth control patch side effects, compared with users of birth control pills. The FDA data were based on the results of two recent studies that analyzed the risk of blood clots, heart attack, stroke and other birth control patch side effects in women who used the Ortho Evra patch. Both studies were conducted by Johnson & Johnson, parent company of Ortho-McNeil. (more…)

Ortho-McNeil is currently facing more than 500 birth control patch lawsuits from former users of the Ortho Evra patch. But experts say that this number may rise sharply in the coming months because of a Food and Drug Administration study which examines the side effects of Ortho Evra. (more…)

A 24-year-old Texas woman has filed an Ortho Evra birth control patch lawsuit against Ortho-McNeil, maker of the Ortho Evra patch. Elizabeth Barraso says that after using Ortho Evra, she suffered severe blood clots that eventually led to the miscarriage of her child. (more…)

An Ortho Evra lawsuit has been filed by a Kentucky woman who claims that she was injured as a result of using the birth control patch. Tonya Dingess’ lawsuit against Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals and its parent company, Johnson & Johnson, is believed to be the first birth control patch lawsuit filed by a woman from the Bluegrass State. (more…)