Zantac Litigation is Born “The best starting point involves a private company known as Valisure. Valisure theorized that ranitidine [aka Zantac] has the potential to degrade into a carcinogen known as ...
The company has agreed to pay $2.2 billion to settle around 80,000 state court product liability cases alleging injury from Zantac (ranitidine), most of which had been consolidated in a Delaware ...
The common claim in the lawsuits is that a contaminant in Zantac (ranitidine) called N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) – as well as other ranitidine products – increased the risk of cancer.
Plaintiffs argued that the company knew that Zantac’s active ingredient, ranitidine, turned into the potential carcinogen NDMA under certain conditions. The US Food and Drug Administration asked ...
Over-the-counter treatment Zantac, known also by its non-commercial name ranitidine, was manufactured by several rivals including the French group Sanofi and US drugmaker Pfizer before it was ...
(WJET/WFXP) — UK-based pharmaceutical giant GSK, or GlaxoSmithKline, has announced that it has agreed to settle nearly 80,000 ...
Class action and personal injury lawsuits have been filed in US courts after the Food and Drug Administration warned in 2019 that some ranitidine drugs including Zantac contained low levels of an ...
GSK shares jumped as much as 6.5% on Thursday after the British drugmaker struck a $2.2 billion settlement over U.S. lawsuits that alleged its discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer.