Quoted from http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20141207_Bayer__J_J_fight_calls_to_unify_suits.html
Bayer, J&J fight calls to unify suits
Jef Feeley, Bloomberg News
Posted: Sunday, December 7, 2014
Johnson & Johnson and Bayer are fighting calls to consolidate lawsuits over Xarelto, an anticoagulant drug that has been blamed in the bleeding deaths of 65 patients.
Bayer produces the drug. J&J, which has major operations in the Philadelphia region, owns U.S. rights to the blood thinner.
Patients who took Xarelto, which has no antidote, and other plaintiffs in the lawsuits accuse the drugmakers of downplaying the medicine's bleeding risks and asked that the cases be gathered before U.S District Judge David Herndon in East St. Louis, Ill., for pretrial information exchanges, according to court filings.