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Mar 13, 2017, 11:36 ET
NEW YORK, March 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson & Johnson's legal costs grew by 480% last year, as Risperdal lawsuits and legal claims involving a number of other products continued to mount in 2016. According to a report that recently appeared in the Financial Times, more than 107,000 product liability claims were pending against Johnson & Johnson by the start of 2017, including more than 28,000 that were filed in 2016. Over 18,000 of the pending cases involve Risperdal, including many that allege the antipsychotic drug caused men and boys to develop gynecomastia, a condition marked by the growth of female-like breasts.
"Over the past several years, we have heard from numerous individuals interested in pursuing Risperdal gynecomastia claims, and our Firm still receives inquiries from prospective plaintiffs on a fairly regular basis. We are not at all surprised that this litigation continues to contribute to Johnson & Johnson's litigation costs," said Sandy A. Liebhard, a partner at Bernstein Liebhard LLP, a nationwide law firm representing the victims of defective drugs and medical devices. The Firm continues to provide free legal reviews to men and boys who allegedly experienced excessive breast growth due to their use of the antipsychotic medication.
Risperdal Litigation
Risperdal is an atypical antipsychotic drug currently indicated to treat certain psychiatric disorders in adults and children. It was brought to market in the early 1990s, and received U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its first pediatric indications in 2006. Plaintiffs pursuing Risperdal lawsuits over gynecomastia claim that Johnson & Johnson and its Janssen Pharmaceuticals unit concealed data linking its use to excessive male breast growth, and failed to provide doctors and patients with appropriate warnings regarding this risk. They also claim that the companies wrongly marketed Risperdal to treat children long before U.S. regulators approved the drug for any pediatric uses.
Risperdal litigations are underway in a number of state courts, including Missouri, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Over the past two years, the mass tort program established for Risperdal lawsuits in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas has convened a number of trials. Several have concluded with verdicts in favor of plaintiffs, with judgments ranging from $500,000 to $70 million. Confidential Risperdal settlements have also been reached in some cases just prior to trial. (In Re: Risperdal Litigation, Case ID: 100300296)
Risperdal patients who experienced the growth of female-like breasts while using the medication may be able to pursue a lawsuit of their own. To learn more, please contact Bernstein Liebhard LLP by visiting the Firm's website, or by calling 800-511-5092.
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Mental Health: Comes With FREE Sudden Death
Or as PhARMA's bagmen - the FDA - puts it:
Hard At Work Speeding Approval of New Life Saving Medications.
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg Named In Racketeering Lawsuit: Alleged Conspiracy With JNJ To Increase Profits
"Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret A.
Hamburg, her hedge-fund executive husband, and Fortune 500 giant Johnson
& Johnson colluded to enrich themselves by failing to warn the
public about a “deadly” antibiotic, a federal racketeering lawsuit claims.
“Once confirmed as FDA commissioner, Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg acted as
the instrumentality that all defendants used to perpetrate their
conspiracy and racketeering enterprise by having her act illegally and
outside the scope of her authority as FDA commissioner to suppress
material information to plaintiffs and the public that Levaquin was
inherently dangerous and in fact, deadly,” the complaint alleges.
The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia Jan. 19, 2016, on behalf of five individuals who claim they
suffered severe physical harm as a result of taking the antibiotic."
Across Europe, thousands of churches have closed and many of them have become mosques. The St. Mark’s Cathedral in London survived Nazi bombers in WW2, but fell to a new invasion and became the New Peckham Mosque. In France, where there are now more Muslims than practicing Catholics, the Islamic colonists demanded that thousands of empty churches be turned into mosques. The Capernaum Church in Germany has become the Al-Nour Islamic Center. In Amsterdam, the St. Ignatius Church was transformed into the Fatih Camii Mosque. Its name means ‘The Conqueror’s Mosque’.
The original Fatih Camii Mosque had been built by the Turkish invaders in Constantinople on the site of the Church of the Holy Apostles. Like their ISIS descendants, the Turks drove out the Greek Christians, destroyed the church and replaced it with a mosque named after the monster Mehmed II, who inaugurated Islamic rule over the fallen city with slavery, rape and beheadings in the ISIS style.
Today ‘Conqueror’s Mosques’ have sprung up not only in Istanbul and Amsterdam, but in Paris, Toronto, Melbourne and Brooklyn, where within sight of the Statue of Liberty extending her torch of freedom to the oppressed of the world, stands the grim squalid outpost of the oppressor of the world.
Mehmed and the Statue of Liberty, the armies of Islam and our way of freedom cannot long coexist.
Islam is conquering Europe. It is also conquering America.
In Syracuse, New York, the Holy Trinity Catholic Church has become a mosque. Despite the church being protected by the Landmark Preservation Board, its crosses were cut down and painted over. After the Islamic terror attacks of September 11, no more planes flew into buildings. Instead they landed at airports disgorging a different sort of conquering army that came with visas instead of boxcutters.
In the decade after 9/11, the number of Muslims in Onondaga County more than doubled. A key role was played by Catholic Charities of Onondaga County, which could not find the money and energy to maintain a church into which generations of immigrations had poured their hopes and dreams, but which served as one of the VOLAGs (voluntary agencies) filling the area with UNHCR approved refugees.
75% of the “refugees” colonizing Syracuse are Muslim. Almost a thousand refugees a year are inflicted on the people of Syracuse who already live in the 23rd poorest city out of the 575 biggest cities in the country. Half the children of Syracuse live in poverty. But each refugee means a $725 check for the VOLAG. Last year that meant a $3 million grant for Catholic Charities.
And while VOLAGs like Catholic Charities cater to migrants, churches are turned into mosques. The North Side, where Catholic Charities has been active in its “charity work” is now full of women in hijabs and the Holy Trinity Church is no more.
Yusuf Soule, who bought the church, explained why he chose it. “The North Side is the magnet for refugees. The two agencies that work with refugees (InterFaith Works and Catholic Charities) are here.”
The more of these magnets we create, the fewer churches and synagogues there will be. Temple Beth El in Syracuse was hit by a Muslim terrorist who set fire to it while shouting, “I did this for you, Allah.”
No one had to set the Holy Trinity Church on fire. The Conference of Catholic Bishops took care of that.
Civilizations don’t fall because there are barbarians at the gate. There are barbarians at the gate because a dying civilization has lost touch with the values that made it great. The barbarians didn’t bring down Byzantium. They aren’t bringing down America and Europe. The barbarians of the prophet just show up to profit from the fall and we are the ones who open the gates and hand over the keys to our killers.
Islam is built on the bones of civilizations. Every Islamic mosque is a conqueror’s mosque.
The most thrilling experience for the new colonizers of the West is the taking of a church or a synagogue and transforming it into a mosque. While for the moment this has to be done legally, it is the closest thing to the ISIS experience that an Islamist can have in America or Europe without going to jail.
This tragedy isn’t only happening in Europe. As the events in Syracuse show, it is taking place right here.
And it isn’t only Catholic churches in New York that are falling victim to this new breed of immigrant Taliban demolishing the un-Islamic to make way for the Islamic.
Two Baptist churches in Louisville, Kentucky have been turned into mosques.
“On a trip to England a few years ago, I recall seeing dozens of churches that had become mosques and wondering how it could happen there; now it’s happening here,” Paul Chitwood, the executive director of theKentucky Baptist Convention, said.
Louisville has the misfortune of being a “preferred resettlement site” which makes it a major dumping ground. The Syrians are on their way courtesy of Islamic Relief USA and it already has 1,605 Somalis and plenty of Iraqis too.
Churches are being turned into mosques all across America. The Abundant Life Family Church in Nebraska is now the Sabah Mosque. St. John’s Catholic Church in Minneapolis became the Darul-Uloom Islamic Center. In Detroit, Our Lady Help of Christians Church fell to the Islamic Center of North Detroit.
Slowly and quietly, this is happening all across America as the Immigration Jihad uses taxpayer money to accomplish what Mohammed, Al Qaeda and ISIS could not. Al Qaeda can destroy our buildings, but only our government can import Muslim colonists who will take over them as bases for their ideology.
Back in Istanbul, Erdogan’s Islamist regime continues pressing to convert churches into mosques, completing the original work of the Caliphate before it was aborted by secular reformers.
Erdogan had made his agenda clear when he recited the Islamist poem proclaiming, “The minarets are our bayonets, the mosques are our barracks, the believers are our soldiers”. And so it has ever been.
The secular West is being swiftly Islamized. Vacant churches become mosques. The barracks of Islam fill with believers who batten on the hate and go out one day to behead a soldier or shoot up a recruiting office. Minarets hatefully thrust their bayonets at the sky warning of a larger war to come.
The Immigration Jihad is colonization plain and simple. It is a war of birth rates and beliefs. A West whose elites have lost their faith is unable to come to terms with the fact that the East has not. The mosques are not “additions to the community”, they are outposts of a hostile civilization whose faith is in the destruction of the West. ISIS or the Muslim torching a synagogue while crying, “I did this for you, Allah” are all part of one terrible arc of theological destruction.
In Mosul, the Syrian Orthodox Church of St Ephraim has been captured by ISIS and turned into a mosque. While we bemoan the barbarisms of ISIS, we are assembling its building blocks right here in our cities. Churches become mosques. Beheadings and horrible acts of terrorism take place monthly.
Our leaders refuse to put the pieces together. They refuse to understand what the flow of Muslim recruits from America to ISIS means and what the transformation of churches into barracks and bayonets means. They refuse to understand that they are helping to build an Islamic State in America.
