Kentucky $7.25 Million Jury Verdict For Failed Cochlear Implant
April 20, 2013
On April 16, 2013, a federal jury in Kentucky returned a $7.25 million verdict in favor of a little girl whose cochlear implant (a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing) failed due to moisture leakage t[...]
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Da Vinci Robotic Surgical System Instrument Failures
March 24, 2013
The FDA maintains a database called MAUDE, which stands for Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience. MAUDE data represents reports of adverse events involving medical devices. The data consists of voluntary reports since June 1993, user facility reports since 1991, distributor reports sin[...]
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Da Vinci Robotic Surgery Malpractice Claims
March 23, 2013
Robotic surgery promises less invasive surgery resulting in less blood loss during surgery, less pain, and a faster recovery time than with other surgical methods. One of the most common surgical robots is called the da Vinci, which is manufactured and sold by Intuitive Surgical (“Intuit[...]
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$8.3M Jury Verdict In DePuy Hip Implant Case
March 17, 2013
On March 8, 2013, a Los Angeles, California jury awarded $8.3 million to a 65-year-old plaintiff who had received an ASR XL hip implant manufactured by DePuy Orthopaedics (“DePuy”), a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, finding that the hip implant was defectively designed and caused th[...]
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Unnecessary Stent Claims
January 13, 2013
Stents are mesh tubes that hold blocked arteries open in order to improve blood flow. Stents are typically recommended for patients whose cardiac arteries are more than 50% or 70% blocked (U.S. guidelines state that an artery should be 50% blocked with cholesterol plaque before the disease is co[...]
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Bed Rails: Safe And Effective Or Dangerous And Deadly?
November 29, 2012
Hospitals and nursing homes often use bed rails on patient/resident beds in an effort to prevent falls from bed and to remind patients to call for assistance when they need to get out of bed. Bed rails are often constructed from metal and may be used on one or both sides of the bed, and may be[...]
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