Petition Filed to Combine Federal Lawsuits Linking Januvia, Byetta, Janumet, Victoza to Pancreatic Cancer, HarrisMartin Reports

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Plaintiffs have filed a petition to create a multidistrict litigation (MDL) docket in California for all pending and future federal lawsuits that link incretin diabetes drugs, including Januvia and Byetta, to pancreatic cancer.

The motion for transfer and coordination of approximately four dozen cases was filed April 5 with the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) and requests that the MDL docket be established in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California where similar cases have already been informally consolidated.

Lawsuits filed by diabetics who developed pancreatic cancer after receiving the incretin mimetic drugs Janumet …