Second Federal Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuit Settled for Undisclosed Amount
After the first federal transvaginal mesh case ended in a $2 million verdict for plaintiff Donna Cisson, the MDL court was preparing for the second trial, scheduled to begin August 19, 2013. As...
View ArticleDePuy Pinnacle Bellwether Trial Scheduled for September 2014
Lawsuits with claims concerning the recalled DePuy ASR hip device now number in the thousands, with two trials having already taken place in California and Illinois. There is another DePuy hip implant...
View ArticleStudy Says Complications Related to Robot Surgery Underreported
Over the past couple of years, the da Vinci surgical system has been linked with serious injuries, including tears and burns to internal organs, vaginal cuff dehiscence, and cut ureters. Some patients...
View ArticleFlorida Consolidates Stryker Lawsuits for Discovery Only
Back in July 2013, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) consolidated all Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II lawsuits into one court in the District of Minnesota. The consolidation was...
View ArticleBiomet MDL Latest Case Management Conference
On October 2, 2012, the U.S. Judicial Panel for Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) issued an order creating the Biomet Hip MDL. The order brought together all federal lawsuits with claims concerning the...
View ArticleStryker Agrees to Settlement in Four Rejuvenate/ABG II Lawsuits
In the summer of 2012, Stryker implemented a voluntary recall of the Rejuvenate and ABG II hip replacement systems. They stated the devices presented “potential risks associated with modular-neck...
View ArticleJohnson & Johnson to Pay Penalty in Vaginal Mesh Litigation
On February 4, 2014, Johnson & Johnson and Ethicon were ordered by a judge to pay for not preserving evidence in In re Ethicon, Inc. Pelvic Repair Systems Product Liability Litigation. This...
View ArticleStryker Setting a Precedent of Settlements in Rejuvenate Lawsuits
In the summer of 2012, Stryker issued a voluntary product recall for both the Rejuvenate and the ABG II implants, stating the metal components could rub against one another, causing fretting and...
View ArticleMorcellation Tied with Increased Cancer Risk—Patients Uninformed
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported in March 2014 that between 1983 and 2010, a total of 13 women developed unexpected uterine cancer after having gone through uterine...
View ArticleAfter FDA Morcellator Warning, Surgical Robot Manufacturer Reduces Projected...
Following the FDA warning concerning power morcellators in uterine surgery, Intuitive Surgical, makers of the da Vinci robot, cut back on its projection for growth. According to a report in the Wall...
View ArticleMedical Malpractice Caps and Your Settlement
Here is a common scenario: You or a family member is suffering from a physical ailment that requires surgery. You do your research, get all of the correct referrals, pick a date and go in for the...
View ArticleMissouri Woman Files Bard IVC Filter Lawsuit, Claiming Back Pain
On November 24, 2015, a St. Louis, Missouri woman filed a new Bard IVC filter lawsuit in the Eastern District of Missouri. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) established the...
View ArticleMemorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center Investigates Duodenoscope-Related...
Over the past few years, a number of hospitals and medical centers across the country have been plagued with outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant infections that they later found were linked to...
View ArticlePlaintiffs Seek Class Action Status and $5 Million in Bard IVC Filter Lawsuit
More than 600 Bard IVC filter lawsuits are pending in court, with all federally filed cases consolidated in the District of Arizona in August 2015. A new case, filed on May 5, 2016, has now joined the...
View ArticleCourt Selects First Three Cook IVC Filter Bellwether Trials
On July 19, 2016, the Cook IVC MDL court selected three cases that will be the first to go to trial in the consolidated federal litigation. In October 2014, all Cook IVC filter lawsuits were...
View ArticleTexas Woman Suffers Pseudotumor from Stryker LFIT V40 Femoral Head
A Texas woman recently joined the many individuals that have filed Stryker LFIT V40 femoral head lawsuits. She filed her case on March 7, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of...
View ArticleFDA Announces Recall of Medtronic Newport Ventilators
On April 5, 2017, the FDA announced a worldwide recall of about 14,000 Medtronic Newport HT70 and Newport HT70 Plus ventilators manufactured since 2010. The manufacturer recalled these devices because...
View ArticleWhat is the Real Cancer Risk for Women with Breast Implants?
The FDA recently warned women and their healthcare providers on March 21, 2017, of a potential cancer risk associated with breast implants. They noted that since 2011, they had received hundreds of...
View ArticleHeater-Cooler Infections Hitting Australia
In October 2016, the FDA issued a safety communication to health care providers to warn of the potential risk of infection for patients who had undergone open-chest surgeries. The FDA reported that...
View ArticleRedesigned Olympus Duodenoscope Tied to New Infection Outbreak
Medical device manufacturer Olympus America recalled its controversial TJF-Z180V duodenoscope in January 2016 to update it with a new design and new labeling. The changes were taken after reports...
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