A new study suggests a potential link between spinal surgeries involving Medtronic Infuse and cancer. This is not only concern. It is just the latest. This product, which certainly helps many patients, comes with a great deal of risk. Growing concerns with use of Medtronic Infuse The Medtronic Infuse Bone Graft is…
Plaintiffs’ counsel in the Aredia/Zometa MDL are asking the judge overseeing the coordinated litigation to remand the over 300 consolidated cases. Why? Discovery is not over. Some people may not live to get their day in court The fear is that the plaintiffs are dying. Quickly. These cases have been…
Our law firm is reviewing da Vinci robotic surgery lawsuits. I have been writing critically about this medical device and its manufacturer, Intuitive Systems. Much of my commentary has been of the, “This is really cool technology that they are misusing and one day this will be really great” variety.…
The vaginal mesh cases are heating up everywhere as plaintiffs’ lawyers, who frankly smell blood, are pushing with greater vigor to get and hold trial dates. Multi-million dollar verdicts will do that. In the Boston Scientific transvaginal mesh cases, lawyers are pushing fast to get a trial date and are…
Earlier this month, the first federal NuvaRing lawsuit was delayed because there has been a lot of talk about settling not only that NuvaRing case, but all of the cases at one time. This blog post is about: What these cases are really about? An update on just where we…
A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge has given the “go ahead” for a student’s lawsuit to proceed – for now, at least – against Morgan State University, denying a Motion to Dismiss the lawsuit. Awful details here. The 23-year-old Plaintiff has filed suit against Morgan State for failing to act to…
Medtonic is a large research company that holds itself out as a company that creates new and innovative ways to treat and rehabilitate patients around the world. This is true. But, too often, their innovation flops miserably because they put a product on the market that is not ready, or because…
Tough Wrongful Death Case Resolves Three years after the death of a beautiful 22-year-old girl, her family has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the Louisville Metro Police Department. The case settled for $700,000 – and a letter. A letter to the family of the deceased from the driver responsible…
A Mississippi Appeals court recently affirmed a trial court decision to throw out a Wal-Mart premise liability case involving a damaged container and corrosive burns. Instead of letting the events (and the injuries) speak for themselves, the court places an extremely high evidentiary expectation that was out of the plaintiff’s…
Promoted as an alternative to traditional spinal surgery, Medtronic Infuse is a bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) that is designed to encourage bone growth and fuse the gaps between vertebrae. Infuse Bone Graft Side Effects When Medtronic first initiated studies in 1999 on BMP, researchers discovered that 70 percent of patients…