Personal Injury
Medtronic: Rented surgical kit may have been contaminated with fatal brain disease
Corrected September 6, 2013, at 11:30 a.m.
Biomet’s preemption bid fails, company proceeds to trial over metal hips
Biomet will go to bat over its M2A-magnum metal-on-metal hip implants after failing to convince an Indiana federal judge that a personal injury lawsuit was preempted by FDA rules.
Another lawsuit against Medtronic’s Infuse proceeds in Arizona
Bard settles 2nd Avaulta bellwether
French pelvic mesh maker dodges Coloplast personal injury lawsuit
The French manufacturer of the mesh used in Coloplast’s embattled Aris transobturator tape system was dismissed from one of the thousands of personal injury lawsuits filed over pelvic mesh systems.
Conflicting decisions and new tactics in Medtronic Infuse lawsuits
GE recall gets FDA’s highest warning after imaging system falls, kills patient
FDA regulators put their highest-risk label on GE Healthcare’s (NYSE:GE) recall of its Infinia Hawkeye 4 system after a unit collapsed and killed a patient in a New York Veterans Administration hospital last month.
Plaintiffs in DePuy ASR lawsuits can add Pinnacle claims
Plaintiffs in 7 lawsuits filed over Johnson & Johnson‘s (NYSE:JNJ) recalled DePuy ASR hip implant can also file claims over the DePuy Pinnacle acetabular cup device, a state judge in California ruled last week.
GE Healthcare takes nuclear imaging systems off line after unit collapses and kills patient
GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) issued an urgent field safety notice on its nuclear medicine systems after part of an Infinia Hawkeye 4 system collapsed and killed a patient in a New York Veterans Administration hospital.
UPDATE: Bard Avaulta mesh case ends in mistrial
UPDATED July 10, 2013 at 3:45 p.m.