Lawyers for both sides in multidistrict litigation over the blood pressure medication Benicar have whittled a list of bellwether plaintiffs down to 10, but the first trial has been pushed back to 2017, lawyers in the case said.
The cases are being prepared for the first trial in federal court in Camden over alleged side effects of Benicar. U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler, who is presiding over the litigation, previously set a target date of late 2016 for the first trial, but the latest case management order shows depositions and pretrial motions running until at least March 31, 2017.
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