Another IVC lawsuit was recently decided in favor of the plaintif after a Texas jury voted in favor of a firefighter who claimed that a Cook Celect IVC filter was the cause of his injuries. The plaintiff, Houston firefighter Jeffrey Pavlock, suffered blood vessel and…
In December 2017 thousands of plaintiffs pursuing Bair Hugger lawsuits for hip and knee replacement infections allegedly caused by the surgical warming system learned that the federal judge overseeing their cases refused to bar their preferred expert witnesses from testifying. This was in response to a motion…
Patients who have received a DePuy Synthes Attune knee replacement have experienced an unusually high rate of early failure of the tibial component. Many experts say that estimate is far to low since it fails to consider unreported events. A close at look the FDA’s…
The first bellwether trial regarding thousands of IVC (inferior vena cava) filter lawsuits filed against C.R. Bard, Inc. is set to in March. It is tentatively scheduled to go to trial on March 13, 2018, assuming the Court is able to resolve all motions, and if accomplished…
On September 24, an FDA advisory committee heard emotional testimony from women and medical experts across the country urging them to take the Essure contraceptive device off the market. The Essure device went on the market in 2001, and through 2010 there were 660…
While the mainstream media occasionally reports on the multi-million dollar jury awards against pelvic mesh makers Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific, one of the lesser known manufacturers will soon face (a wave of) injured women in court. Cook Medical of Bloomington, Indiana is a privately…
The Biomet Magnum metal on metal hip implant settlement announced last year is proceeding forward. All of the participation percentage requirements have been met. The original deadline for individual settlements to be completed or for cases to go forward in litigation was December 31, 2014, That…
Registration for the $1 billion dollar plus settlement of the Stryker Rejuvenate hip implant lawsuits has been extended until Friday December 19, 2014. This settlement pays a base amount of $300,000 per hip for those Stryker hip implant patients who had revision surgeries before November…
Over 70,000 lawsuits are pending in the U.S. federal courts against seven different manufacturers of transvaginal mesh implants. Ethicon, Boston Scientific, C.R. Bard, American Medical Systems (AMS), Coloplast, Cook, and Neomedic all marketed these products to OB physicians for implantation in women who had pelvic…
This week a settlement was announced in the thousands of lawsuits pending against Stryker over the recalled Rejuvenate and AGB ll hip implants. These Stryker implants were recalled in 2012 as a result of a high failure rate due to metallosis. The Stryker implants are…
