Late last week Baxter filed a Scheduling Proposal with Chief Judge James G. Carr here in Toledo, seeking to delay any trial in the Heparin Disaster litigation until June 1, 2011. We will be filing our response later this week, and will present argument on the issue in a hearing set for May 11th in Cleveland.

In our filing we will try to push for a quick trial date so that the victims of the Heparin Disaster will get their day in court sooner rather than later.

Sadly the goal of Baxter and other big pharma companies whose drugs cause harm typically follow this same pattern of delay: Delay the date of reckoning, delay the date of payment as long as possible, and then pay as little as possible to those you have injured. The only tool we have to bring these big companies to justice is the hammer of a jury trial. So it is our task to prepare for that trial as quickly and diligently as possible.

While we now have received a million pages of documents from Baxter and SPL, almost all have been marked confidential. This prevents us from sharing the content of those documents until the time of trial.

What we can say is that there is nothing good in these documents for Baxter or SPL.

Once trials begin they will be primarily wrongful death cases. The most serious harm caused by the contaminated heparin were wrongful deaths of people who were undergoing dialysis therapy or heart surgery between October 1, 2007 and April 1, 2008. We expect that most of the early trials will focus on cases that meet these criteria.

If you lost a loved one during this period of time who was undergoing dialysis or heart surgery you should immediately seek legal counsel. Some states have one year statutes of limitation while other states may have 2 years, which means that if a claim isn't filed promptly it can be time barred.

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