A federal judge has rejected Bayer AG’s bid to force Kentucky’s attorney general to turn over documents his office was provided by lawyers who represented women in thousands of lawsuits alleging they were injured by the drugmaker’s Yaz and Yasmin contraceptive pills. U.S. District Judge John Herndon in East St. Louis, Illinois on Tuesday ruled the state and lawyers for the plaintiffs acted properly in sharing information under the terms of an order in the cases before him governing the disclosure of records. To read the full story on Westlaw Practitioner Insights, click here: bit.ly/2A6CTNh
An attempt by Bayer to have documents about thousands of women who said they were injured by its contraceptive pills turned over to it has been rejected by a federal judge in the US. The German chemicals company wanted the attorney general of Kentucky to hand over lawyers’ documents relating to the complaints against the Yaz and Yasmin pills. Bayer, which is owned by Germany’s Bayer AG, had asked for access to confidential information on more than 10,000 women, including their medical records, as part of an ongoing lawsuit brought under Kentucky’s whistleblower protection law.