UPDATED August 12, 2013, with information on a 3rd DePuy ASR trial.
Evidence of the recall of the DePuy ASR metal-on-metal hip implant can be excluded from a bellwether trial over the device, a federal judge ruled last month.
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UPDATED August 12, 2013, with information on a 3rd DePuy ASR trial.
Evidence of the recall of the DePuy ASR metal-on-metal hip implant can be excluded from a bellwether trial over the device, a federal judge ruled last month.
Nobel Biocare Holding may be able to settle a class action lawsuit involving 1,000s of dentists for $1.3 million after a federal judge tentatively OK’d the deal.
The class action, headed by Dr. Jason Yamada, includes any U.S. dentists who bought Nobel implant products (except the company’s NobelDirect Groovy device) – more than 2,900 dentists.
Robot-assisted surgical devices maker Intuitive Surgical (NSDQ:ISRG) defended its da Vinci technology during a liability lawsuit this week, questioning an expert witness who testified that the device wasn’t at fault for death of patient Fred Taylor.
A federal jury awarded a Kentucky couple more than $7.2 million, including nearly $6.3 million in punitive damages, over the failure of their daughter’s Advanced Bionics’ recalled HiRes 90k cochlear implant.
The jury in the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for Western Kentucky, found that Advanced Bionics didn’t properly test the implant before it hit the market and never told the FDA that it had switched the manufacturer of a key component to a vendor called AstroSeal.
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) ignored serious problems with its DePuy ASR metal-on-metal hip implant in a game of "Russian roulette" the company played with patients’ safety, a plaintiff’s lawyer in a high-profile personal injury lawsuit said during the case’s closing arguments yesterday.
A jury this week sided with a plaintiff in a bellwether product liability lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon’s transvaginal mesh implants.
A spate of lawsuits accuse Fresenius Medical (NYSE:FMS) of deliberately concealing potentially fatal problems with a pair of since-recalled products used during dialysis.
A doctor who blames a botched hip implantation on Smith & Nephew (FTSE:SN, NYSE:SNN) is suing the British medical device company to recoup his $2.2 million malpractice loss.
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