Xarelto Internal Bleeding Lawsuit

Xarelto Lawsuit

What is Xarelto?

Xarelto is a prescription blood-thinning drug manufactured by Bayer and Johnson & Johnson via Janseen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The drug received initial FDA approval in 2011 for knee and hip replacement patients. It was quickly approved to help prevent strokes in individuals with abnormal heart rhythms. Unfortunately, Xarelto was soon linked to a number of dangerous side effects.

Xarelto can cause uncontrollable internal bleeding.

The main problem with Xarelto is that it can cause internal bleeding, and this happens because the drug acts by preventing the blood from clotting. The leading blood-thinner before Xarelto was Warfarin. Warfarin was problematic because it was difficult to administer, required lifestyle changes by the patient, and it interacted poorly with other drugs. It also caused occasional uncontrollable bleeding in the body. Xarelto solved many of the problems associated with Warfarin, but increased the danger of internal bleeding. Bleeding caused by Warfarin can be stopped by dosing the patient with Vitamin K, but bleeding caused by Xarelto has no known fast-acting antidote.

Is there a Xarelto Class Action Lawsuit?

There is no Xarelto class action lawsuit at this time. However, most large-scale defective drug cases end up as part of a Multi-District Litigation (MDL). MDLs streamline litigation and reduce costs to injury victims. Each case in the MDL is handled individually, but all cases are before the same court and subject to the same rules and court orders. Therefore, it is possible for each case in an MDL to settle for different amounts of money. All Xarelto lawsuits were transferred to the Eastern District of Louisiana in December, 2014, as MDL 2592.

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