More than 100 women in US who became pregnant after taking birth control pills that were mislabeled have filed suit, seeking millions of dollars in damages.

‘Several women who became pregnant after taking mislabeled birth control pills have filed suit in United States, seeking millions of dollars in damages and interest. The women are demanding that the companies cover the cost of their child's education and medical expenses till 18 years, lost salaries and pain and suffering resulting from their unintended pregnancies.’

Damages sought by most of these women, however, are limited by their home states's laws to medical expenses, lost salaries and pain and suffering. Their lawyer Keith Bodoh said, "Of the women involved in the case, 93 gave birth, 17 did not carry their pregnancies to term, and two others never became pregnant."
The four companies named in the suit are Vintage, Qualitest, Endo and Canadian-based Pantheon which sold the birth pills under eight different brand names. 




The US Food and Drug Administration in September 2011, voluntarily recalled multiple lots of the pills citing the packaging error and warning it could leave women at risk for an unwanted pregnancy. Initially, the group had sought class action status for the suit, but when the request was denied by a federal judge in Atlanta, Georgia their lawyers opted to file suit in Endo's home base- Philadelphia.
Source-AFP