Inferior vena cava (IVC) filters have long been known to pose serious health risks. The devices, which are intended to prevent blood clots from forming in and traveling through the body, have on many occasions been observed to cause more harm than good. In 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety alert warning about the dangers of long-term IVC ...
What You Should Know about Cook IVC Filters
Posted June 13, 2015 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | IVC Filter Failure | Product News and Recalls
Power Morcellator Manufacturers May Be Under Criminal Investigation
Posted June 12, 2015 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Product News and Recalls
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 criminal wrongdoing by Johnson & Johnson, as well as other manufacturers of power morcellators, for their failure to ...
Cook IVC Filter Lawsuits Centralized in Southern Indiana MDL
Posted June 12, 2015 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | IVC Filter Failure | Product News and Recalls
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has ruled to consolidate all pending federal Cook IVC filter lawsuits in a multidistrict litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. At the time of its filing, the litigation included 27 Cook IVC filter lawsuits pending in eleven districts. Since then, the case count has risen to approximately 100.
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continue reading...Boston Scientific Ordered to Pay $100 Million in Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuit
Posted June 11, 2015 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | Product News and Recalls | Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuit
Boston Scientific Corp. has been ordered to pay $100 million to a Delaware woman who claims the company’s transvaginal mesh implants caused her chronic pain and left her unable to have sex. According to Bloomberg, this marks the first verdict returned following Boston Scientific’s agreement to settle 3,000 transvaginal mesh lawsuits.
Transvaginal mesh implants are intended to treat urinary incontinence and ...
continue reading...Plaintiffs File Motion to Consolidate Bard IVC Lawsuits
Posted June 10, 2015 in Drug and Medical Device Lawsuits | IVC Filter Failure | Product News and Recalls
Plaintiffs in Bard inferior vena cava (IVC) filter lawsuits have filed a motion to consolidate their cases before a single judge in a multidistrict litigation. A group of plaintiffs appeared before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, requesting coordinated pretrial proceedings in Texas or Nevada for at least 25 Bard IVC filter lawsuits in 22 federal jurisdictions. Hundreds of additional lawsuits are expected to be filed in the coming months.
Bard ...
continue reading...Takata Airbag Recall Doubles to 34 Million Vehicles
Posted June 10, 2015 in Product News and Recalls | Recall
Readers who used to spend weekend mornings watching Warner Brothers cartoons may remember classic scenes of characters frantically trying to plug holes in dams. As each hole was plugged with a finger, gum, or anything else that might be nearby, two or three new holes would spring in its place.
Eventually the dam would crack and the character could only turn, look at the viewer, sadly blink a few ...
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