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  • Power Morcellator MDL Committee is First with Female Majority
    For the first time in history, a multi-district litigation committee has been created that is comprised of more women than men. The committee appointments, made by US District Judge Kathy Vratil, center around the current multidistrict litigation regarding power morcellators manufactured by Johnson ...
  • Morcellator Critics Subjected to Enhanced Security Measures Prior to Surgery
    This blog has been covering the story of Dr. Amy Reed and her husband, Dr. Hooman Noorchashm, since we started discussing power morcellators and the risks the devices pose to the public. Drs. Reed and Noorchashm are both esteemed physicians. Dr. Reed is an anesthesiologist and Dr. Noorchashm is a ca...
  • Initial Status Conference Scheduled for New Power Morcellator MDL
    In a recent case management order, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil set November 18 as the date for an initial scheduling conference for the newly consolidated power morcellator multidistrict litigation. Centralized late last month in Kansas, the litigation initially included 20 power morcellator ...
  • Ethicon Power Morcellator Lawsuits Consolidated in Kansas
    Six federal power morcellator lawsuits filed against Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon unit have been centralized in a multidistrict litigation in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation held in its October 15 transfer order that the ca...
  • Members of Congress Seek FDA Accountability for Power Morcellator Deaths
    According to the Wall Street Journal, twelve members of Congress have called upon the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate why the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took so long to warn about the cancer-spreading risks of power morcellators. “Hundreds, if not thousands ...
  • One of First Power Morcellator Lawsuits Settled
    The Wall Street Journal reports that one of the first power morcellator lawsuits filed, and what would have been the first to proceed to trial, has been settled out of federal court for an undisclosed amount. The power morcellator lawsuit was filed in May of last year against medical device manufact...
  • FBI Investigating Power Morcellators
    Nasdaq reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is currently investigating laparoscopic power morcellators, a type of surgical tool known to spread cancer in women. According to the article, in recent months the FBI has interviewed a retired pathologist who notified Johnson & Johns...
  • South Carolina Couple Files Power Morcellator Lawsuit
    A South Carolina man and woman have filed a power morcellator lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon unit. The couple claims that Johnson & Johnson’s device caused the woman to develop uterine fibroid cancer when it spread unsuspected cancerous tissue throughout her abdomen during a...
  • Power Morcellator Manufacturers May Be Under Criminal Investigation
    When a medical device is thought to have contributed to the death or serious injury of a patient, the manufacturer of that device is required by federal law to report that event to government regulators. Now, there is strong evidence to suggest that the FBI is investigating the possibility of crimin...
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