Filing a class action lawsuit can seem pretty intimidating. If you or someone you love has been harmed by a company’s or individual’s actions, products, services, or negligence, though, you need to know how to file this type of lawsuit. It can help you and others who are in the same situation get the compensation you need to put your lives back together. Here’s a bit of information on how the process of filing this type of lawsuit works. We’ll just give you a scenario to help you see how it works. Currently there is no Osmoprep class action and individual Osmoprep lawsuit cases are being filed by people suffering from kidney damage.
A Scenario
First, let’s say that your doctor has just prescribed you some new birth control. You know about basic warnings like not smoking while taking birth control and not taking the pill if you have high risk of blood clots. You avoid smoking and know you don’t have lots of clotting risk factors. You start taking the pill. A few months later, you suffer from deep vein thrombosis and nearly die because of a pulmonary embolism. You spend several days in the hospital. Your insurance covers your hospital stay, but it doesn’t cover the time you missed at work. Now, you’re behind on bills for the month, and everything starts to snowball. In the case of Osmoprep phospho-soda, the FDA required an Osmoprep black box warning.
Well, if you find out that there are other perfectly healthy women who have struggled with clotting even though they had almost no risk of it, you can start working on a class action lawsuit.
Find an Attorney
Your first step is to find an attorney. Make sure you’re working with an attorney who does class action lawsuits, as not all law firms handle them. Sign a contract once you know the attorney will work well for you, and not before. Sometimes, you have to pay the attorney. If he thinks you have a good chance of winning, though, you may not have to pay any fees. Instead, the attorney will just take a percentage of whatever you get from the court when the case is over.
File it in Court
You’ll have to file the claim in court next. There will be a fee for this, and you’ll probably also have to pay to get notice to the defendants in your case. Next, the judge will require that you send notice to other parties in your class – that is, others who have been harmed in similar ways by the same birth control pill.
Oftentimes, this notice is published in major paper publications, on television commercials, or through letters sent to individuals. Once you have several plaintiffs together, you can get class status through the courts. This status will allow you to have one single trial together, and it will simplify the entire process.
You may or may not choose to become the lead plaintiff who is in contact with lawyers and who testifies in court. Once your case has been filed, you’ll need to stay in contact with your lawyer to learn about the next steps. In simplified form, this is how you file a class action lawsuit.
Author Resource:
Gary Simons is the author of this article on Osmoprep Lawsuit .
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