The manufacturers of defective medical devices have been the focus of a number of lawsuits filed by the Mass Tort Unit of Searcy Denney this week. An individual lawsuit was filed on behalf of a Bartow, Florida woman who was implanted with a defective hernia mesh patch manufactured by Bard, […]
Category: Defective Medical Devices
If Johnson & Johnson is a family company, I’m not sure if it’s a family I want to belong to. The latest black eye for the once stellar and highly respected American company is the recall of 157,000 surgical staples used to treat hemorrhoids. The Wall Street Journal reports malfunctions […]
A new study reports on the likelihood of needing a second surgery after a hip replacement procedure for osteoarthritis, and the news is not good for men and younger seniors. Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston analyzed data from 51,000 Medicare patients who received total hip replacements (THR) […]
There are about 70 notifying bodies scattered around Europe that are in charge of deciding whether or not a medical device can be sold in that respective country. It is their alternative to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is considered more rigorous in ensuring patient safety. Or […]
Hip arthroplasty devices have been available in the U.S. for over 50 years with a variety of outcomes. An artificial hip medical device may be used to restore function of the joint, relieve pain or cure a disease or condition not responsive to a more conservative therapy. In May 2011, […]
The Mass Tort Unit of Searcy Denney has filed two more individual lawsuits this week against DePuy, a division of Johnson & Johnson, over the medical device manufacturer’s recalled DePuy ASR hip implants. The firm represents several dozen plaintiffs from Florida as well as other parts of the country who […]
A follow-up of patients who received hip replacement surgery by the National Joint Registry of England and Wales has researchers issuing an ominous warning – women are strongly urged to avoid the hip replacement procedure known as “resurfacing,” according to a published report in the British medical journal, The Lancet. […]
Victims of transvaginal mesh have additional time to file a product liability action. Rulings in multidistrict litigation (MDL) have extended the discovery time deadlines in the pre-trial process and pushed back a deadline for the lawsuits to begin. The Honorable Judge Joseph R. Goodwin, in the Southern District of West […]
This is a tough one to believe. A Minneapolis doctor issued a press release going on the attack against plaintiffs’ lawyers who are representing women seriously injured by synthetic mesh used to treat prolapse and incontinence Dr. Jon Nielsen doesn’t let the facts get in the way. Nielsen, a […]
With all of the bad news coming out about the dangers of defective synthetic transvaginal mesh made of polypropylene used to treat prolapse and incontinence as well as the thousands of lawsuits waiting to be heard in state and federal courts filed by severely injured women looking to regain their […]
