On August 17, 2017, a Pennsylvania woman filed an Ethicon Proceed mesh lawsuit in the Western District of Pennsylvania. She claims that after being implanted with the mesh product, she suffered serious injuries. Plaintiff Implanted with Proceed Mesh; Suffers Bowel Adhesion According to her complaint, the plaintiff…
The wife and son of a deceased Pennsylvania man recently filed a new Stockert heater-cooler lawsuit against device manufacturers Sorin Group Deutschland and Sorin Group USA, Inc., and health care providers Christiana Care Health Services, Inc. and Christiana Hospital. The plaintiffs claim that the decedent…
On July 31, 2017, an Arkansas woman filed a Physiomesh lawsuit against manufacturers Ethicon and parent company Johnson & Johnson (J&J). The case was filed in the Eastern District of Arkansas, but transferred to the Northern District of Georgia where there is a coordinated Multi-District…
On July 21, 2017, a Florida woman filed a new heater-cooler lawsuit against Sorin Group USA, Inc., Sorin Group Deutschland GbhH, and LivaNova PLC. She claims that her husband was infected by dangerous bacteria during an open-heart surgery, and subsequently died of the infection and…
On July 21, 2017, a Pennsylvania man filed a new IVC filter lawsuit against Cook Medical. He claims that after being implanted with the device, he suffered serious injuries. His case joins thousands of other federally filed cases currently consolidated in the Southern District of…
A Pennsylvania man recently filed a new IVC filter lawsuit against manufacturer C.R. Bard. According to a report in the Daily Hornet, the case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, which is the location of the current consolidated Multidistrict…
In April 2017, a Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas jury awarded $20 million to a woman from Burlington County, New Jersey. The woman brought a lawsuit against Ethicon and parent company Johnson & Johnson (J&J), claiming that its transvaginal mesh product was defective and caused…
A Stryker LFIT V40 femoral head lawsuit was filed in the Western District of Pennsylvania and transferred to the District of Massachusetts, where all federally filed Stryker LFIT lawsuits have been coordinated. Plaintiffs are residents of Pennsylvania and filed the case on April 28, 2017.…
Pittsburgh scientific researcher Jack Rihs, recently released the results of a new study showing that contaminated Stockert 3T heater-cooler units may have put more patients at risk during open-chest surgeries than was previously believed. Rihs is the head of laboratory services at Special Pathogens Laboratory…
