{"id":18223,"date":"2019-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/26\/775-million-settlement-reached-in-xarelto-lawsuits\/"},"modified":"2019-03-27T16:09:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T16:09:29","slug":"775-million-settlement-reached-in-xarelto-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/26\/775-million-settlement-reached-in-xarelto-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"&#36;775 Million Settlement Reached in Xarelto Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Patients claim companies failed to warn about the risk for potentially fatal bleeding episodes<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, March 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A settlement of $775 million will be paid to settle lawsuits involving the blood thinner Xarelto, Johnson &#038; Johnson and Bayer said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The companies jointly sell the drug, and the settlement will be split evenly between them, <i>The New York Times<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Neither company admitted liability.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement resolves state and federal lawsuits by patients who said the companies failed to warn about the risk for potentially fatal bleeding episodes when taking the drug, <i>The Times<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/25\/health\/xarelto-blood-thinner-lawsuit-settlement.html\" target=\"_new\"><i>The New York Times<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients claim companies failed to warn about the risk for potentially fatal bleeding episodes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-18223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}