‘Medical Device Injury’ Category

A group of women injured by Covidien transvaginal mesh products have settled their lawsuits against the medical device maker. The settlement comes in just a portion of the 11,000 vaginal mesh cases filed against Covidien.

The vaginal sling settlement is confidential, according to a filing made recently in the federal court...

Around the country, many women have been injured by power morcellators. These are medical devices that can spread undetected uterine cancers throughout the body during surgical procedures such as hysterectomies and myomectomies, in which fibroid uterine tumors are removed. Many lawsuits have already been filed, some in state court and others in federal court. A motion has been filed to...

Arkansas orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Win Moore III, was shocked when he received a one-page letter from Stryker Corp. in 2012 announcing a problem with its metal-on-metal hip replacement systems. With more than 20 years of experience, the surgeon at Baxter Regional Bone and Joint Clinic, has performed hundreds of surgeries.

A Los Angeles jury has reached a $4.5 million verdict in a metal-on-metal hip implant lawsuit against Wright Medical Technology Inc. The verdict came in the first hip implant case to go to trial against Wright. The plaintiff received the medical device in 2007 but after experiencing extreme pain just three years later, was forced to endure a number of corrective surgeries.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) reportedly has launched an investigation into whether laws were broken by medical device manufacturers of the power morcellator device. Used in gynecologic surgery to perform hysterectomies and remove fibroid tumors, the power morcellator unfortunately has caused the spread of undetected cancers in many women.

At a recent orthopedic conference in Orlando, Lawrence D. Dorr, M.D., of Los Angeles discussed signs doctors should watch for in their patients who have received metal-on-metal hip implants. The presence of certain symptoms could indicate that revision surgery is needed to remove the defective metal-on-metal hip and replace it with another implant. Thousands of Americans have suffered as a...

New findings have recently been published about the dangers for women forced to undergo surgery for the removal of transvaginal mesh. The mesh products have caused injuries to so many women that thousands of vaginal mesh lawsuits have been filed against at least seven manufacturers, including Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon unit, Boston Scientific and C.R. Bard Inc.

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Boston Scientific Corp. has reported in an SEC filing that it has resolved almost 3,000 of the 25,000 transvaginal mesh cases filed against it. The medical device manufacturer marketed its mesh product to treat urinary incontinence. Women who were implanted with the device, however, have experienced excruciating pain, bleeding, infections and other complications. Many women have been forced to...

Insurance giant Aetna Inc. will no longer cover routine laparoscopic procedures using a power morcellator. Aetna is the third-largest health insurance plan in the United States.

Some surgeons used power morcellators — often in hysterectomies — to remove benign uterine fibroids. The power morcellator is inserted through tiny incisions to cut up the fibroids or the entire uterus and...