August 4, 2017 — The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) has centralized 161 lawsuits involving kidney injuries from heartburn drugs like Nexium and Prilosec into one federal court.
The lawsuits will be coordinated in Multi-District Litigation (MDL No. 2798) under Judge Claire C. Cecchi in the District of New Jersey — In RE: Proton-Pump Inhibitor Products Liability Litigation (No. II).
Drug-makers are accused of failing to adequately warn that PPI heartburn drugs can cause kidney injuries, Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), acute interstitial nephritis, end-stage kidney disease, or kidney failure.
The JPML rejected centralizing the lawsuits in January 2017 because the lawsuits involved so many different drugs and different types of injuries. The JPML reconsidered after AstraZeneca and Pfizer said they would support centralization because there were so many cases.
The PPI class of heartburn medications includes:
- Aciphex (rabeprazole)
- Dexilant (dexlansoprazole)
- Nexium (esomeprazole)
- Prevacid (lansoprazole)
- Prilosec (omeprazole)
- Protonix (pantoprazole)
- Vimovo (naproxen / esomeprazole)
- Zegerid (omeprazole / sodium bicarbonate)
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