The first bellwether cases of the Mirena IUD MDL are scheduled to begin in 2016. This legal action will help determine the outcome of thousands of Mirena lawsuits against drug giant Bayer, alleging that the Mirena IUD is dangerous.
The Mirena IUD is a birth control implant, designed to be implanted in the uterus. However, postmarket reports show a variety of alleged Mirena IUD complications, including uterine perforation (the IUD punching holes in the uterus), migration (the device working its way though the walls of the uterus and moving within the body), and other serious Mirena complications. Mirena lawsuits have alleged that the device is defective and that Bayer has not done enough to protect the public from the risks associated with the Mirena IUD.
Plaintiffs have filed more than 2,000 individual Mirena lawsuits. In light of the sheer number of Mirena lawsuits, the legal system has resorted to a process called multidistrict litigation, or MDL. In a MDL, a number of similar lawsuits are grouped together to help streamline the legal process. Functionally, this turned the thousands of individual Mirena lawsuits into a single Mirena MDL, similar in some ways to a Mirena class action lawsuit.
Cases within MDLs retain a degree of autonomy, and a special class of individual Mirena lawsuits within the Mirena MDL form so-called bellwether cases. These bellwether cases are cases selected to go to trial before the others.
These cases will allow the legal system to make key determinations about evidence and judgments that create precedents that determine the course of the rest of the case. Bellwether cases also help to determine how juries will respond to key pieces of evidence as the MDL progresses.
The first bellwether Mirena lawsuits have been scheduled for March 2016. These Mirena lawsuits allege that Bayer was aware — or reasonably should have been aware — of the serious risks associated with the Mirena IUD, including uterine perforation, migration, and other Mirena IUD complications.
These Mirena lawsuits further allege that not only was Bayer aware of these risks, but actively downplayed them, endangering the women who used Mirena.
The Mirena MDL is In Re: Mirena IUD Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2434, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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