When the Plumbers and Pipefitters local union of West Virginia invested in Zimmer Holdings, shareholders were looking to reap some big financial rewards from the medical device maker. Instead they found themselves initiating a class action lawsuit that was dismissed Monday, May 21, by a federal appeals court judge. The […]
Category: Defective Medical Devices
Consumers Union has posted an ad in the online news source, Politico, Monday, May 21, asking “Should medical device makers be allowed to sell new devices based on manufacturer-recalled products – without ever having to prove that the safety flaws were fixed?” Sounds like the answer should be a resounding […]
In an unexpected move, the Department of Justice has suspended its four-year civil and criminal investigation into allegations of off-label marketing by Medtronic Inc. concerning its Infuse bone graft product. No charges have been issued and there was no settlement reached after the company was notified by the U.S. Attorney […]
If you blinked you may have missed this news item but it’s important to understand how government inaction hurts its citizens and this is a prime example. On Tuesday, May 8, a House subcommittee unanimously voted to approve its version of the Medical Device User Fee Act (MDUFA) which funds […]
With hundreds if not thousands of lawsuits filed against transvaginal mesh manufacturers, the first trial date has been set for cases to be heard against C.R. Bard Inc. February 5, 2013 is the first date set for bellwether trials filed by women who claims injuries after they were implanted with […]
So far this week, our firm has filed three new DePuy ASR hip implant cases in the MDL proceedings pending before Judge David A. Katz of the United States District Court in the Northern District of Ohio. These multi-district litigation proceedings related to DePuy’s recalled ASR hip implants are also […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to remind the public what a good job it’s been doing in monitoring drugs both before and after they are marketed. In a report issued over the weekend, April 21, “Advances in FDA’s Safety Program for Marketed Drugs,” the agency pats itself […]
This is the typical refrain from so many of our clients who were implanted with defective metal-on-metal hip implants made by orthopedic giants like DePuy, Stryker, Wright Medical, and Zimmer. The irony is that those who utter those words are actually very close to the emerging stereotype for these clients. […]
We hear from them every day – consumers who trust and believe their doctor only to find out things like what Consumer Reports (CR) investigates in its May issue. Surprisingly, the majority of medical devices never have to pass through any sort of safety and efficacy standard with the Food […]
Better late than never? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold a gathering of scientific and clinical experts to discuss whether metal-on-metal (MoM) artificial hip systems should undergo more rigorous scientific scrutiny before they are implanted in U.S. patients, which sounds infinitely reasonable. On Thursday, March 29, the […]
