Defective Medical Devices

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 […]

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) rarely responds to negative news, which it’s been experiencing a lot of lately, usually relying on the news cycles to wash away unfavorable reports. But in an unusual move, a J&J spokesman recently did defend the company from the latest blow – that the health care […]

Johnson & Johnson knew about at least some of the serious problems related to their DePuy ASR hip implant, known as metal-on-metal (MOM) implants,  before they ever started alerting consumers and it appears they may have known about it even before they asked the FDA to approve the device through […]