Adding to the substantial controversy and litigation surrounding the Mirena IUD contraceptive device, an Arizona woman has filed suit in U.S. District Court in New Jersey alleging that the birth control product and the synthetic hormones it releases caused her to suffer a dangerous accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid and pressure... Read more »

New research has suggested that fractures of inferior vena cava (IVC) filters, the subject of a growing wave of litigation in recent years, may be the result of flattening and other movement of the vena cava itself. The insights were published in July by the Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings... Read more »

The wave of litigation concerning inferior vena cava filter devices shows no sign of slowing as claims continue to mount nationwide. Plaintiffs in increasing numbers are filing lawsuits in which it is alleged that the filters, designed to prevent the travel of dangerous blood clots within the body, are prone... Read more »

As lawsuits relating to inferior vena cava (IVC) filters continue to mount, a Missouri woman has recently filed a complaint arguing that a portion of the Bard G2 filter implanted in her body fractured, causing a fragment to lodge in her back. As a result of this device failure, the... Read more »

A request by a number of plaintiffs in power morcellator lawsuits has been granted by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, thus creating a consolidated federal docket in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. Pretrial proceedings for cases alleging a connection between power morcellators and cancer will... Read more »

In late February, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in conjunction with the Brookings Institution, released a report detailing a new $250 million, seven-year initiative designed to create a national system of medical device surveillance. The development of such a program is an acknowledgment of the fact that while the... Read more »

In what may be a sign of things to come, Johnson & Johnson has recently agreed to settle four cases involving allegedly defective and dangerous vaginal mesh implants, including one matter that was currently at trial stage in Missouri. This represents the first instance in which J&J and its Ethicon... Read more »

A lawsuit recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota represents another in the continuing deluge complaints related to the Mirena intrauterine contraceptive device. A likely candidate for tag-along status and transfer into the existing Mirena multidistrict litigation (MDL) underway in the Southern District of New... Read more »

A federal judge presiding over a DePuy hip implant lawsuit has determined that the case will not be sent back to Nevada state court, despite the plaintiff’s jurisdictional arguments, finding that a medical device supplier included as a defendant in the suit was fraudulently added to the complaint. The ruling... Read more »

A recently released study has suggested that the latest innovations in total hip and knee replacement devices provide virtually no benefits to patients and may in fact boost the likelihood that they will suffer serious complications that put their health in jeopardy. These revelations follow an onslaught of litigation surrounding... Read more »