Mylan, other drugmakers face product liability suits related to pain patches.

 The Shaked Law Firm is investigating generic drug giant Mylan Inc., along with other pharmaceutical companies, in product liability lawsuits related to the manufacture of pain patches.  At issue is the powerful painkiller fentanyl, which is applied to the skin in a patch for the slow release of the medication. In current Mylan lawsuits, plaintiffs attribute 28 deaths to the patches. And, although Mylan has denied liability in court filings, the suits are being filed at a time when the Food & Drug Administration has been looking into allegations of compliance problems at a separate Mylan plant in Morgantown, WV.   That probe stems from “a July 26 story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that described how workers routinely overrode computer-generated warnings about potential manufacturing problems, which could affect drug quality.” In response to the current suits, an attorney for Mylan stated, “the existence of a defect cannot be inferred from a mere product failure or an accident involving the product.”