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Between 2013 and 2024, contaminated Olympus duodenoscopes infected hundreds of patients at hospitals across the United States. At least 35 people died. The infections were caused by drug-resistant bacteria that no antibiotic could reliably kill. The patients had gone into the hospital for routine diagnostic procedures–gallstone evaluations, pancreatic biopsies, bile duct imaging–and came out with infections that would destroy their organs, land them in intensive care for months, or kill them outright.

The remarkable part is not that it happened. Medical devices fail. Infections occur. What makes the Olympus duodenoscope litigation extraordinary is that the company knew. Olympus knew its scopes could not be adequately cleaned. Olympus knew that bacteria were surviving the sterilization process and spreading from patient to patient. Olympus knew that people were dying. And for years, the company did almost nothing.

This page explains what went wrong, why it went wrong, and the legal options available to patients and families harmed by contaminated Olympus scopes. It is long. It is detailed. It is written for people who want to understand not just the claims being filed, but the science, the regulatory failures, and the corporate decisions that turned a solvable engineering problem into a public health catastrophe.

If you swallowed a wire bristle from a grill brush or found a metal fragment in your food after cleaning your grill, you are not imagining things or overreacting. A wire bristle from a grill cleaning brush can break off during normal use, stick to a burger or hot dog without anyone seeing it, and end up in your throat, stomach, or intestines. These injuries can range from sharp throat pain and trouble swallowing to bowel perforation requiring emergency surgery.

The danger is not new. The CDC warned about grill brush bristle injuries years ago, after reports of people suffering internal injuries from tiny metal bristles that detached from brushes and were swallowed with grilled food. What changed in 2026 is that federal regulators took major action. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced large recalls involving Weber and Nexgrill metal wire bristle grill brushes because detached bristles can stick to grills or food and cause serious internal injuries that may require medical treatment or surgery.

Together, the Weber and Nexgrill recalls cover more than 13 million grill brushes. Weber recalled about 3.2 million brushes after reports of bristles detaching, including cases where consumers required medical treatment. Nexgrill recalled more than 10.2 million brushes after at least 68 reports or reviews involving detached bristles, including five reports of consumers swallowing metal bristles and needing medical treatment to remove them from the throat or digestive tract. If you or someone in your family was hurt after using one of these brushes, there may be a product liability claim against the manufacturer.

Prilosec and Nexium kidney damage class action lawsuits are still being filed around the country.

Thousands of Proton Pump Inhibitor lawsuits have been filed around the country by plaintiffs who allege that PPI drugs like Nexium and Prilosec caused them to develop permanent kidney damage, bone fractures, and interstitial nephritis. As of August 2023, there are nearly 13,000 Nexium and Prilosec kidney damage lawsuits pending in a class action MDL.  Settlement rumors in this litigation are swirling.

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Nitrous oxide cartridges, often sold under names like Whip-Its, Galaxy Gas, and Baking Bad, are now at the center of a growing wave of lawsuits across the country. Our lawyers are handling claims against manufacturers, distributors, and retailers for serious nitrous oxide injuries.

What was marketed as a novelty or culinary product has become a common recreational inhalant, especially among young people. Repeated use is dangerous. It can cause neurological injury, psychiatric damage, spinal cord dysfunction, and in some cases, death. Nitrous oxide use is now showing up in medical records, emergency rooms, and court filings. This is a serious and escalating problem.

Lawsuits allege that companies failed to warn about known risks, marketed products in ways that encouraged abuse, and ignored clear signs of harm. Cases include personal injury and wrongful death claims, as well as proposed class actions arising from deceptive labeling and distribution practices. These claims could eventually be consolidated in a federal MDL for coordinated pretrial proceedings.

For sickle cell patients and families, Oxbryta was supposed to be a lifeline. Instead, it left many worse off–facing new health crises, hospitalizations, and in some cases, unthinkable loss. Now, Oxbryta lawsuits are uncovering what Pfizer knew and when it knew it.

Oxbryta is a prescription drug developed by Global Blood Therapeutics and later acquired by Pfizer. It was voluntarily recalled in September 2024 after new evidence revealed that it caused serious and potentially fatal complications, including vaso-occlusive crises and organ damage.

This page looks at Oxbryta lawsuits and their potential settlement value.

Oxbryta is a prescription drug made by Pfizer that was recalled in September 2024 after evidence revealed that it caused a number of very serious and potentially fatal health problems, including vaso-occlusive crisis and organ damage. Continue reading

Our lawyers are handling Taxotere eye injury lawsuits throughout the United States for women with permanently watery eyes from docetaxel.

Taxotere (docetaxel) is a widely used breast cancer chemotherapy drug. New evidence has emerged showing that Taxotere may be causing some users to suffer permanent vision loss or damage.

This has led to a wave of product liability Taxotere lawsuits by women who claim that Taxotere damaged their eyesight. The manufacturer of Taxotere, Sanofi, allegedly knew about the risk of vision damage but chose not to warn doctors or patients about this risk.