Crestor Lawsuits Seek Number of Damages

Crestor side effects have driven many patients of the cholesterol-reducing statin drug to file suit against drugmaker AstraZeneca in order to gain damages that could compensate for their serious injuries and diseases from the drug. Most of the lawsuits allege that AstraZeneca was aware of the serious side effects, such as muscle injury, type 2 diabetes milletus, congestive heart failure, necrotic pancreatitis, and Crestor rhabdomyolysis, and should have warned the public about them. If the drugmaker was not, in fact, aware of these Crestor side effects, some lawsuits continue, they should have been—and may have been negligent in clinical trials.

The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about “serious muscle toxicity” associated with Crestor and other statin drugs such as Zocor and Lipitor in 2005, after many patients had already sought legal aid in their battle against the drugmaker. Statins are now gaining a reputation, notorious for causing muscle damage, Crestor heart problems and other serious complications to patients who are only seeking to lower their cholesterol.
Heart disease is one of the most common killers in the United States, and high cholesterol is a major contributor to it as well as other fatal diseases such as stroke. 

Statin drugs have proven beneficial to many patients hoping to lower their cholesterol. Cholesterol is a substance that builds up in arteries and can contribute to a number of cardiovascular conditions. It is associated with a high-fat and high-cholesterol diet, as well as the growing obesity problem in first world countries, but is also closely linked to genetics. A slim, athletic, and otherwise healthy person can suffer from high cholesterol if it is genetically linked to them.

San Francisco has become a hub for Crestor lawsuits, with a number of the suits having been filed from July to September of this year. Plaintiffs are seeking damages that could help cover medical bills, attorney fees, lost wages, loss of quality of life, and other steep financial burdens that they now have to deal with. More and more plaintiffs are filing suit every day after experiencing Crestor side effects that have had a serious impact on their daily lives.