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Litigation

Nov. 12, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies prevail in diabetes drugs case

Pharmaceutical companies have prevailed in multidistrict litigation involving failure to warn of risks with diabetes drugs.

By Lyle Moran
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN DIEGO - Pharmaceutical companies have prevailed in multidistrict litigation handled in the Southern District of California involving claims that the defendants failed to warn that four prescription drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes cause or create an increased risk of pancreatic cancer.

U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Battaglia on Monday granted summary judgment for the pharmaceutical compan...

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