Australian lawmakers are considering legislation to help protect consumers from faulty medical devices, including all-metal hip implants.
Newspaper The Australian reports that there is currently no requirement in Australia that sponsors of medical devices, which are companies that don’t produce the devices but supply them for sale, have insurance in case of problems with a device. The story says at least one senator intends to introduce legislation that would all sponsors ...
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Sixty three recipients of an artificial hip implant manufactured by a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary have filed suit in Israeli court, claiming that the devices broke down and caused them 
A federal judge overseeing more than 50 consolidated lawsuits about the Mirena intrauterine device recommends that the plaintiff’s lawyers include some women in the proposed leadership committee, according to a Reuters report.
A piece in the New York Times on Johnson & Johnson’s new corporate branding campaign says the company urgently needed to distance itself from the “bad press of product recalls and pending litigation,” of which it experienced much lately.
More than 170 residents of South Africa are filing suit against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopedics over problems with the company’s all-metal hip implants, according to a story on IOL News.
According to a story in the National Law Journal, about 40 lawsuits filed over Bayer’s Mirena intrauterine device have been coordinated in multidistrict litigation, and will be heard by a New York federal judge. Attorneys for the plaintiffs said they expect complaints about Mirena IUDs to generate hundreds – perhaps thousands – more lawsuits in the near future.
