C.R. Bard, one of six makers of transvaginal mesh, wants to recoup the cost of preparing for a trial that was dropped by the plaintiff shortly before it was to begin. The Linda Rizzo product liability case was scheduled for October 8 as one of the bellwether cases against each […]
Category: Defective Medical Devices
The drumbeat was pretty loud as the government headed toward a shutdown – repeal the 2.3 percent tax on medical devices that was going to partially fund the Affordable Care Act. The medical device lobby called the tax an unfair burden that would hurt the industry and its ability to […]
Almost everyone has heard advertisements for lawyers representing women damaged by transvaginal mesh. And the response has been overwhelming. There are almost 35,000 cases filed in one court alone, the federal court in Charleston, West Virginia. Thousands more are filed around the country naming primarily six manufacturers – Ethicon ( […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally seems to be taking something other than a head-in-the-sand approach to monitoring medical devices after they are approved and in use by patients. The U.S. does not monitor medical devices after they go through the FDA’s approval process. Since most medical devices are […]
It’s a novel idea that actually makes sense – the consumer group, Consumers Union, wants hip and knee implants to come with a warranty. In case a medical device fails the patient prematurely, the patient would not have to carry the burden of the costly revision surgery. This idea is […]
Mass tort litigation has been pending against the manufacturers of NuvaRing for many years now and is hopefully drawing to a close in the coming months. The litigation is primarily based in federal court in St. Louis, Missouri, where MDL No. 1964 has been pending since 2008. The MDL is […]
Lawyers preparing for trial in product liability cases, such as Searcy Denney, can never comment on settlement talks – but that has not stopped Bloomberg News from speculating that Johnson & Johnson may be close to offering more than $3 billion to settle its recalled him implant cases in the U.S. […]
We will never know just how much Wanda Queen was offered by C.R. Bard to settle her defective Bard Avaulta Solo transvaginal mesh lawsuit. All we do know is that on the morning that opening arguments were set to be heard, August 21, in the Charleston, West Virginia federal court, […]
Cook Medical is once again shipping the Zilver PTX Drug-Eluting Peripheral Stent to doctors and hospitals in Europe, Japan and in the U.S. following a global recall due to at least one fatality. The stent was voluntarily recalled after the company received 13 complaints of a faulty delivery system. Specifically, […]
The national litigation efforts in state and federal court involving Wright Medical’s defective metal-on-metal hip implant products ( Conserve®,Dynasty®, Profemur® and the Lineage®) have been proceeding well over the past few months with additional progress expected through the end of 2013. The coordinated litigation efforts in both the federal Multi-District Litigation (MDL) […]
