YOU CAN HIRE YOUR OWN COUNSEL AND COMMENCE AN INDIVIDUAL ACTION AGAINST THE MANUFACTURER IF YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE A CASE.
After over a year of investigation and reviewing about 1,000 forms and other data from people nationwide, it was determined that there were too many different factual differences between potential claimants that would prevent a class from being certified by the court. The law requires common injuries and damages between everyone. In this case, everyone had a difference, whether it was their being on other medications or how they took Ambien; it was different enough to determine a class action was not best. Our offices always maintained from the start of this action that our goal was twofold: (1) to make people aware that they could suffer adverse reactions from Ambien that they did not know about and (2)to get stronger warnings about this drug. I accomplished that when I put this issue in the media and on March 14, 2007 the FDA directed the Ambien manufacturer to provide the very warnings this lawsuit demanded. No other office nationwide would at least take that responsibility. We did, and we got a result, and we did not receive any compensation other than accomplishing what we promised.
