{"id":2502,"date":"2018-08-23T15:17:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/whitepapers\/taxotere-hair-loss-lawsuits-centralized\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:28:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T06:28:09","slug":"taxotere-hair-loss-lawsuits-centralized","status":"publish","type":"whitepapers","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/whitepapers\/taxotere-hair-loss-lawsuits-centralized\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxotere Hair-Loss Lawsuits Centralized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a notice made public August 15th, the New Jersey Supreme Court Justices in July granted multicounty litigation status to about 353 cases alleging Sanofi U.S. Services Inc., Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC, Sandoz Inc. and Actavis LLC failed to adequately warn consumers about the risk of permanent hair loss as a result of using the breast cancer drug <a href=\"\/practice-areas\/pharmaceutical-litigation\/taxotere\/\">Taxotere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuits each assert that the drugmakers knew or should have known that Taxotere &#8220;causes and contributes to permanent disfigurement and hair loss,&#8221; but did not adequately warn of such risks, according to the patients&#8217; centralization petition. The suits target the companies&#8217; &#8220;wrongful conduct&#8221; in designing, manufacturing, distributing, labeling, advertising, marketing, promoting and selling the chemotherapy drug.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs are represented by <a href=\"\/napoli-attorney\/hunter-shkolnik\/\">Hunter Shkolnik<\/a>, <a href=\"\/napoli-attorney\/nicholas-r-farnolo-li\/\">Nicholas R. Farnolo<\/a>, <a href=\"\/napoli-attorney\/shayna-sacks\/\">Shayna E. Sacks<\/a>, <a href=\"\/napoli-attorney\/w-steven-berman\/\">W. Steven Berman<\/a> among others.<\/p>\n<p>The cases will be heard by Judge James F. Hyland in Middlesex County, where 333 of the cases are pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a notice made public August 15th, the New Jersey Supreme Court Justices in July granted multicounty litigation status to about 353 cases alleging Sanofi U.S. Services Inc., Sanofi-Aventis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":379,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[249,250,251,252,57,152,158],"whitepaper-source":[63],"class_list":["post-2502","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-chemotherapy","whitepaper_category-hair-loss","whitepaper_category-nicholas-farnolo","whitepaper_category-w-steven-berman","whitepaper_category-hunter-shkolnik","whitepaper_category-shayna-sacks","whitepaper_category-taxotere","whitepaper-source-law360"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/whitepapers"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}