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$10.5M Kentucky Medical Malpractice Verdict For Leg Amputation After Sponge Left During Bypass Surgery

January 23, 2020

A Kentucky medical malpractice jury recently awarded $10.5 million against the defendant hospital for a woman who had to have a left leg partial amputation that resulted from a sponge left in her during bypass surgery in 2011. About four years after the bypass surgery, the woman found out that the s[...]

Texas Appellate Court Affirms $1.8M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Cotton Ball Left In Brain During Surgery Seven Years Earlier

September 10, 2019

The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum Opinion filed on August 22, 1019 in a Texas medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleged that a cotton ball was left behind in her brain at the conclusion of the brain surge[...]

Allergan Textured Breast Implants Recalled At FDA’s Request

July 26, 2019

On July 24, 2019, the FDA issued a safety communication requesting Allergan to voluntarily recall certain breast implants and tissue expanders to protect patients from risks associated with certain textured breast implants. The macro-textured implants, like the BIOCELL textured implants manufactured[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Finds Hernia Mesh Left After Surgery May Be Foreign Object Allowing Late Filed Medical Malpractice Case

June 7, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Ohio Eighth Appellate District County of Cuyahoga (“Ohio Appellate Court”) held in its Journal Entry And Opinion filed on May 23, 2019: “Although foreign-object cases have generally involved objects such as surgical instruments, needles, and sponges that wer[...]

When Will The FDA Investigate The Metal In Filshie Clips?

March 29, 2019

The FDA issued a statemnet on March 15, 2019 entitled “Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. and Jeff Shuren, M.D., Director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, on efforts to evaluate materials in medical devices to address potential safety questions” in whi[...]

Are Filshie Clips Safe?

February 24, 2019

Millions of women in the United States have had Filshie Clips implanted as a means of permanent sterilization. The vast majority of these women apparently have not suffered any complications or adverse events regarding their Filshie Clips. Nonetheless, we receive inquiries on nearly a daily basis fr[...]

Where Is My Filshie Clip?

August 10, 2018

A major manufacturer of Filshie clips, which is a method of permanent female sterilization, describes the medical device on its website as follows: “The Filshie Clip is manufactured from titanium and is lined on the inner surface with silicone rubber (both materials are implantable grade). At [...]

Misplaced/Displaced (Migrated) Filshie Clips

June 9, 2018

We have been receiving an increasing number of inquiries from women throughout the United States who had Filshie clips used during tubal ligation who subsequently got pregnant because the Filshie clips were improperly placed or the Filshie clips migrated, causing unwanted pregnancies and/or severe p[...]

Mississippi Supreme Court Grants New Trial In Surgical Sponge Medical Malpractice Case

May 7, 2018

The Supreme Court of Mississippi (“Mississippi Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on April 26, 2018 that the trial court erred by refusing to instruct the Mississippi medical malpractice jury as requested by the plaintiff in a case where the plaintiff alleged that the defendant su[...]

$100K Ohio Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgical Sponge Left In Patient

April 29, 2018

An Ohio medical malpractice jury awarded $100,000 in an Ohio medical malpractice wrongful death case against a surgeon who admittedly left a surgical sponge in a patient after performing surgery. The patient died fifteen months after the surgery and her family claimed in its Ohio medical malpractice[...]

Two Sponges Left In Woman For At Least Six Years Following C-Section

March 20, 2018

An article appearing on February 22, 2018 in The New England Journal of Medicine discussed the case of a 42-year-old Japanese woman who had been experiencing lower abdominal bloating for three years. The woman went to her primary care provider for diagnosis where abdominal palpation found two nonten[...]

California Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Claims Forceps Left In Patient During Surgery

January 3, 2018

A California woman has filed a medical malpractice case in California in which she alleges that surgical forceps were left in her abdomen during an exploratory laparotomy in April 2017, resulting in the need to have further surgery to remove the 8-inch long surgical instrument and 18 inches of her s[...]

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