MDL Court Denies Certification Of Class In Testosterone Replacement Therapy Litigation

This post comes solely from the Cozen O'Connor side of the blog.

The MDL court in the Testosterone Replacement Therapy ("TRT") litigation involves more than just individual product liability cases. It includes a class action. In particular, a single named plaintiff, Medical Mutual of Ohio ("MMO"), seeks to represent a class of third-party payers ("TPPs")—entities such as health benefit plans and HMOs—who will claim to have suffered economic damages when they reimbursed payments for medically inappropriate TRT prescriptions. The prescriptions were medically inappropriate, MMO argues, because they were the result of the class's reliance on misrepresentations about the safety and efficacy of off-label uses for TRT. MMO wants the putative class to get its money back. And more. It wants treble damages and legal fees under RICO (it also asserts state-law negligent misrepresentation claims).