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The first Xarelto bellwether trial began on April 24, 2017 in New Orleans, and the plaintiff accused Johnson & Johnson and Bayer of failing to warn that the blood thinner could cause serious or fatal bleeding.
Joseph Boudreaux took Xarelto to help cut his stroke risk, but instead the drug caused serious gastrointestinal bleeding, according to his lawsuit. Boudreaux spent a week in the intensive care unit and needed several blood transfusions and heart procedures. He also claimed that the drug makers failed to warn patients and doctors that the drug had no antidote or a way to determine which patients were at higher risk for bleeding.
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