Plaintiffs generally face a couple of major obstacles in Xarelto lawsuits.
First, plaintiffs need to prove that Xarelto caused their injury. This is often difficult to prove, particularly because patients typically have other health problems that could have caused or contributed to their injury.
Second, the learned intermediary doctrine holds that the drug manufacturer can escape liability for failure to warn about serious side effects if the drug manufacturer warned the prescribing physician and the physician failed to notify the patient.