Plaintiff Claims Takeda Risked Patients’ Health With Actos

Indiana resident Gerald Johnson, represented by his Actos lawyer, filed one of the many new Actos lawsuits on June 21, 2012, in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. Johnson seeks to hold manufacturer Takeda Pharmaceuticals liable for his injuries, calling the diabetes drug Actos “unreasonably dangerous.”
Johnson notes in his complaint that in the last year, Actos had global sales of $4.8 billion, which accounted for approximately 27 percent of Takeda’s revenue. In addition, back in 2008, while allegedly having knowledge of the association between long-term Actos use and bladder cancer, Takeda made Actos the tenth bestselling medication in the U.S.