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RICO Lawsuit Alleges Transvaginal Mesh Manufacturer Used Counterfeit Raw Materials

January 25, 2016

In a federal class action lawsuit filed on January 12, 2016 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, the plaintiff alleges that Boston Scientific Corporation (“Boston Scientific”) knowingly imported counterfeit raw materials from China that it used in its ma[...]

FDA Reclassifies Transvaginal Surgical Mesh Used To Repair Pelvic Organ Prolapse As High-Risk Medical Device

January 5, 2016

On January 4, 2016, the FDA announced that it was issuing two final orders regarding surgical mesh used to transvaginally repair pelvic organ prolapse (POP). One final order reclassified transvaginal surgical mesh used to repair POP from a Class II medical device (moderate-risk medical devices) [...]

$80M California Verdict For Defective Ethicon Surgical Stapler Causing Anal Canal Closure

December 30, 2015

A California defective medical device claim against Johnson & Johnson regarding its Ethicon subsidiary’s Proximate surgical stapler has resulted in a jury award of $8.5 million in compensatory damages to the injured woman for her pain and suffering, disfigurement, humiliation, and med[...]

$11M Verdict For Wright Medical’s Conserve Hip Implant Claim

December 17, 2015

On November 24, 2015, a federal jury in Georgia returned its verdict in the amount of $11 million ($1 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages) against Wright Medical Technology, Inc. (“Wright”) involving its Conserve hip replacement system, after a two-week[...]

Claim Against Pennsylvania Hospital For NTM Infection Linked To Heart Bypass Machines With Heater-Cooler Devices

December 16, 2015

On November 30, 2015, a husband and wife filed a notice of medical negligence claim against a Pennsylvania hospital regarding the husband’s open heart surgery in November 2013 that allegedly resulted in him contracting a very serious bacterial infection due to an allegedly unclean device [...]

Wife Alleges That Husband Died Due To Defective Blood Clot Filter

December 14, 2015

The wife of a man who died as a result of a blood clot filter becoming dislodged and traveling to his heart alleges that the manufacturer of the blood clot filter is responsible for her husband’s death because it knew that the filter was defective. The husband was contemplating having bariatr[...]

Lawsuits Allege Bair Hugger Surgical Blanket Can Lead To Surgical Infections

December 13, 2015

Recent lawsuits allege that the Bair Hugger warming blankets that are used to keep surgical patients warm during surgery can lead to unintended infections by pushing warm contaminated air from the operating room into sterile surgical sites, thereby leading to serious infections that may cause ser[...]

Olympus Sued For Alleged Defectively Designed Duodenoscope Leading To Patient’s Death

December 4, 2015

On November 20, 2015, a wrongful death lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Olympus America, Olympus Medical Systems Corp., and Custom Ultrasonics, alleging that the Olympus TJF-Q180V (“Olympus 180”) duodenoscope was defectively [...]

Bard IVC Filter Case Filed In Missouri

November 19, 2015

On September 28, 2015, the widow of a man who died allegedly due to a defective Bard G2 IVC filter filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of her husband’s estate and on her own behalf against C.R. Bard, Inc. and Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of [...]

Power Morcellator Cancer Lawsuits Filed By Two Pennsylvania Women

August 5, 2015

Two Philadelphia women recently filed lawsuits alleging that they developed cancer after power morcellators were used during their laparoscopic hysterectomy procedures. The Philadelphia women allege in their lawsuits that the manufacturer of the laparoscopic power morcellators used in their robot-as[...]

Federal Judge Rejects Strict Liability For Defective Medical Device Claim

July 25, 2015

On July 15, 2015, a federal judge with the U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Pennsylvania held that the exclusion from strict liability for prescription drug claims should also apply to prescription medical device claims. Despite the fact that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has yet to a[...]

California Jury Awards $4.5M For Defective Hip Implant

June 20, 2015

On June 12, 2015, after an eight-day trial, a 12-member California jury deliberated for more than a day before it awarded the plaintiffs $4.5 million in compensatory damages after finding that the manufacturer of a hip implant, Wright Medical Technology Inc., defectively designed the hip prosthesis[...]

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