Experience
Successfully Defended Ohio Hospital at Trial
We represented a local hospital and its employee in a lawsuit filed by a patient in the Hamilton County, Ohio Court of Common Pleas. The patient claimed that his hearing was permanently damaged because of an MRI at our client’s facility. We tried the case for approximately one week. After 45 minutes, the Hamilton County jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of our client, finding that the hospital employee did not violate the standard of care for an MRI technician.
Fixodent Denture Cream Litigation
Dinsmore's Product Liability Team recently received a ruling in favor of The Procter & Gamble Defendants ("P&G") which is the first in the country to assess and reject the scientific basis for lawsuits filed by a number of Fixodent® users.
Frank C. Woodside, III, and his team serve as counsel for P&G defendants concerning Denture Adhesive Litigation. In that litigation, Judge Cecilia Altonaga oversees discovery in the Multi-District Litigation involving more than 150 plaintiffs who seek damages for personal injuries that allegedly resulted from their use of excessive amounts of Fixodent, manufactured by P&G, and/or Poligrip, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline. The current litigation was initiated in 2009 against P&G. The Federal cases were eventually consolidated in Miami with a number of other cases pending in state courts throughout the country. P&G has steadfastly defended the safety of Fixodent.
On June 13, 2011 Judge Altonaga issued a Daubert opinion granting P&G's motion to exclude virtually all of the Plaintiffs’ proposed expert opinion testimony that purportedly supported the link between extremely excessive use of Fixodent denture adhesive and neurological disease.