In early March, a plaintiff filed suit against Bayer alleging that she suffered permanent vision impairment caused by the company’s Mirena intrauterine device (IUD) in a Colorado court. The Mirena IUD is alleged to cause a complication called pseudotumor cerebri (PTC), which causes permanent vision impairment resulting from an increase... Read more »

A recent study indicates that people with hip or knee replacements who were younger than 70 years of age at the time of surgery are at higher risk of needing revision surgery than those who were older than 70. Revision surgery after a failed joint implant either replaces the hip... Read more »

Atrium Medical, the manufacturer of C-Qur mesh, may have begun a what a court filing terms a “stealth” recall of certain kinds of the product due to allegations that products used in its manufacture increased the risk of hernia mesh complications. A stealth recall means that the company has simply... Read more »

The multidistrict litigation (MDL) that centralized all federal Cook IVC filter lawsuits has taken another step forward with the identification of the second case to go to trial. More than 900 claims are currently pending in the MDL. They have been consolidated for pre-trial proceedings in the U.S. District Court for... Read more »

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 »

A federal judge has selected three cases to serve as early trials in the growing litigation involving IVC filters manufactured by Cook Medical. Approximately 500 cases are currently pending in multidistrict litigation that has been assigned to an Indiana federal court. The outcome of these early trials may provide insight... Read more »

Damages in a Pinnacle hip implant lawsuit have been reduced in accordance with state law but the verdict remains the same, a judge overseeing coordination of Pinnacle hip injury lawsuits has determined. The original jury award of $500 million was reduced to $151 million for the five plaintiffs that were... Read more »

Nearly 3.5 years after filing a lawsuit against Intuitive Surgical over injuries suffered during a hysterectomy allegedly caused by the company’s da Vinci Surgical System, plaintiff Michelle Zarick reached a settlement with the manufacturer on April 21. The settlement came on day three of jury deliberations, following a two-week trial... Read more »

When Medtronic’s Infuse Bone Graft was first approved by the FDA in 2002, the innovation was hailed as a major breakthrough that could stimulate the formation of new bone mass when used in spinal fusion procedures. Medtronic’s own website waxed poetic about the breakthrough, comparing it to The Anatomy Lecture... Read more »