Woman Files Yaz Lawsuit after Suffering a Stroke

Michelle Andos was one of the first women to opt for Yaz birth control pills when Bayer put it on the market in 2001. She continued taking Yaz until she suffered a stroke in 2011. During her decade of use, Andos claims she was never told that Yasmin side effects included a host of ailments which allegedly were never described on the packaging, inserts or labeling. She joined many other women on Nov. 12, 2013 when she filed her Yaz lawsuit. Her stroke on Sept. 27, 2011 drastically altered her life and will continue to do so. 

Bayer, the manufacturer of Yaz and Yasmin, got in trouble with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for over-promoting claims well before the FDA took action regarding the numerous Yasmin risks. Bayer was required to spend millions in corrective advertising. Andos says that Bayer “concealed their knowledge of the defects in their products from the Plaintiff, and her physicians, hospitals, pharmacists, the FDA, and the public in general.”

According to her Yasmin lawsuit, the company was also “negligent in failing to adhere to and/or take into consideration warnings from the FDA, who determined that the Defendants were misleading the public in general, and the medical community in particular, through the use of advertisements which overstated the efficacy of YAZ/Yasmin and minimized the serious risks of the drug.” 

The lawsuit continues that Bayer “negligently and improperly failed to perform sufficient tests, if any, on women using YAZ/Yasmin during clinical trials, forcing Plaintiff, and her physicians, hospitals, and/or the FDA, to rely on safety information that applies to other oral birth control medications, which does not entirely and/or necessarily apply to the YAZ/Yasmin whatsoever.” 

Andos believes the stroke she suffered was the result of Yasmin side effects. She says she “has endured and continues to suffer the mental anguish and psychological trauma of living with the knowledge that she has and/or may suffer serious and dangerous side effects.” She’s had to change her lifestyle and has faced incredible medical bills resulting from her alleged Yaz stroke.

According to the Yaz lawsuit, Bayer “had a duty to exercise reasonable care in the designing, researching, manufacturing, marketing, supplying, promoting, packaging, sale and/or distribution of YAZ/Yasmin into the stream of commerce, including a duty to assure that the product would not cause users to suffer unreasonable, dangerous side effects,” but failed. Andos is suing Bayer for negligence, strict products liability, breach of warranty, fraudulent misrepresentation, fraudulent concealment, negligent misrepresentation, fraud and deceit. 

The Yaz lawsuit is Michelle Andos v. Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc., et al., MDL No. 2100, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.

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