Medical device makers gaming the FDA approval system are endangering millions of Americans in the race to compete. Some are even committing medical device fraud.
More than 200,000 malfunctioned medical devices and over 2,000 device-related deaths are reported each year — sometimes leading to medical device injury lawsuits. These cases and more show that some medical device...
C.R. Bard’s argument to get out of multidistrict litigation is denied.
An Arizona federal judge has dismissed C.R. Bard Inc.’s request to evade multidistrict litigation, ruling the state law claims are not preempted by federal law. Multidistrict litigation (MDL) is a procedure the federal courts use to handle hundreds or thousands of lawsuits that may be filed in federal courts...
Identification numbers are key in tracking Medicare spending on recalled medical devices and protecting consumer health.
According to auditors with Medicare’s financial watchdog office, the federal Medicare program is spending billions of dollars on failed medical devices. Currently, the government lacks a reliable way to track public spending on the thousands of recalled or defective...
A Bid by Consumers to Consolidate State Court Lawsuits Over Stryker Corp.’s Allegedly Defective Hip Replacement Device is Approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey
The Supreme Court of New Jersey approved a bid by consumers to consolidate claims against Stryker Corp. for its allegedly defective metal-on-metal hip implants – Stryker LFIT Anatomic Cobalt Chromium V40 femoral heads....
Johnson & Johnson’s Defective Transvaginal Mesh Products are, for the Fifth Time, the Subject of a Trial in Philadelphia
Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary, Ethicon Inc., is back in court in Philadelphia for the fifth time for its defective transvaginal mesh products. A woman who was implanted with pelvic mesh to treat her incontinence in July of 2010 is suing Ethicon over the...
Coloplast, the Danish medical device manufacturer, has set aside $445 million to pay U.S. women injured by the company’s transvaginal surgical mesh products. After making the announcement, Coloplast’s financial results for the year reportedly fell 62 percent.
Danish Transvaginal Mesh Manufacturer Predicts that Some Lawsuits Against it are Likely to Go to TrialVaginal mesh is a...
Twelve congressional members have asked the U.S. Government Accountability Office to conduct an investigation concerning the laparoscopic power morcellator — a device used in gynecologic surgeries that can spread undetected cancer cells throughout the body. A bipartisan group of lawmakers sent a letter to the GAO, criticizing the Food & Drug Administration for being lax in its decision...
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