Blood Factor Contamination Cases
Result: Confidential settlements
Year: 2009
Blood Factor VIII and Factor IX Litigation
Working with counsel in Asia, Europe, Central and South America and the Middle East, Lieff Cabraser represented over 1500 of hemophiliacs worldwide, or their survivors and estates, who contracted HIV and/or Hepatitis C (HCV), and Americans with hemophilia who contracted HCV, from contaminated and defective blood factor products produced by American pharmaceutical companies. In 2004, Lieff Cabraser was appointed Plaintiffs’ Lead Counsel of the “second generation” Blood Factor MDL litigation presided over by Judge Grady in the Northern District of Illinois. The case reached a global settlement in 2009.
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