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The firm's Mass Tort Department handles cases involving a litany of drugs - from Abilify to Zyprexa, from Accutane to Viagra and Vioxx. It also litigates cases involving a wide range of other products, such as asbestos, defective pacemakers and defibrillators and Bausch & Lomb ReNu brand contact lens solution. (See lists below.) Kline & Specter, P.C., is among the handful of law firms spearheading national litigation against Merck & Co. involving the pain medication Vioxx which was removed from the market in 2004 after it was linked to an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes. Tom Kline and Shanin Specter deposed ranking Merck executives and scientists. Kline is also a member of the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee directing the federal Vioxx litigation. Heading the mass tort litigation team for Kline & Specter is Lee B. Balefsky, a partner at Kline & Specter, who has 25 years experience in complex litigation. (Continued below.) Medical Devices and Other Products:
Beyond being a national leader in the Vioxx litigation, Kline & Specter has had more than 1,000 clients in the Fen-Phen diet drugs case. Lee Balefsky serves as the Philadelphia County Mass Tort Program liaison counsel in the Vioxx, Diet Drugs, and PPA cases, a role in which he aids the court in case management while providing information to other attorneys involved in the cases. The Mass Tort Department has achieved significant settlements for clients in lawsuits against the makers of several drugs, including Baycol, Fen-Phen and PPA. The Mass Tort Department's expertise goes far beyond pharmaceutical cases. Balefsky has won numerous cases over the past two decades for clients stricken with cancer because of asbestos inhalation, a still-present danger. The division also handles cases involving defective medical devices and is currently representing a water company in a case involving MTBE, a gasoline additive that works its way into water supplies. Although clients are individually represented in mass tort cases, the system allows for consolidation and streamlining by allowing lawyers for numerous clients to "pool" discovery. Numerous witness depositions and document gathering can be conducted once, with the information centralized and shared among the parties for each individual trial or settlement negotiation. For more information on mass tort litigation, see the article co-authored by Michelle Tiger titled "Philadelphia Mass Tort Program: Alive and Well" and published in the February 2005 issue of Product Liability Law & Strategy. Tom Kline speaks out on FDA drug labeling policy 
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