North Carolina Product Liability Lawyer BlogAt some point in your life, a medical device will likely become a necessary part of your medical care. You may need external items such as hearing aids, blood glucose meters, insulin pumps, or feeding tubes. You may also need the help of surgically implanted medical devices like artificial hips, heart pacemakers, breast implants, spine […]
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New York Times Notes Dangers of 510(k) and Untested Artificial Hips
It’s nice to see that I may be out in front of a national publication like The New York Times. For two and a half years I have been writing on the dangers of metal-on-metal artificial hips and the deeply-flawed 510(k) medical device approval process. On Saturday Jeanne Lenzer published a very informative piece in the […]
Help! I Don’t Like My Product Liability Settlement Offer!
Before you accept a settlement offer, talk to your lawyer, ask all the questions you have, read the settlement documents carefully, and make an informed decision.
HBO’s John Oliver Reports on Dangerous Medical Devices and the FDA
I’ve been writing about dangerous medical devices on this site for four years. Over that time I’ve reached thousands and thousands of people injured by these harmful implanted medical products. John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight, picked up the subject this week, and I am grateful to him and to HBO because he reached […]
Beware Big Business Spin: A Defense of “Ambulance Chasers”
Let me see if I have this straight: There is a huge medical device manufacturer that earns over $75 billion dollars each year. This corporation decides to market and sell a new medical device. The corporation refuses to do extensive testing on the device because that would take too long and cost too much money. […]
The Bleeding Edge: Film Examines Dangers of Medical Device Industry
For more than three years I have been writing about the dangers of certain implanted medical devices. These devices include artificial hips, hernia mesh, IUDs, IVC filters, and others. And some have caused massive human suffering: neurological problems, sexual dysfunction, immobility, infertility, headaches, pain, even death. If you are reading this sentence then you discovered […]
C.R. Bard IVC Filter Trial: Injured Woman Wins $3.6 Million Jury Verdict
Victims of C.R. Bard’s IVC filters got some great news two weeks ago. An Arizona jury in the first bellwether trial awarded a woman $3.6 million for injuries she suffered after Bard’s “G2” IVC filter broke into pieces in her inferior vena cava vein, requiring open heart surgery to remove the broken pieces. The plaintiff, […]
After Noisy August, Fourth Depuy Pinnacle Hip Bellwether Trial Underway
Some of my clients have been asking me what is going on with the fourth Depuy Pinnacle bellwether trial. Non-clients have also been calling to inquire about the status of the trial. Did it start this week? Was it postponed? What is the deal with Depuy and Johnson & Johnson trying to stop the trial? […]
Depuy Pinnacle Artificial Hips: A Timeline of Profits, Injuries, Lawsuits
Last week I wrote a timeline on the key events surrounding the failure of the Depuy ASR artificial hip. Today I want to take a similar look at the Depuy Pinnacle artificial hip. The Pinnacle was supposed to be the ASR’s more active and athletic brother. But it didn’t turn out that way. 1995: Study […]
Depuy ASR Metal-on-Metal Hip: Timeline of Injury, Revisions, Lawsuits
I have written extensively about metal-on-metal (MoM) artificial hips. Specifically, I have covered the painful and sordid history of the Depuy ASR metal-on-metal (MoM) artificial hip. In this post I set out a timeline of important dates in the the journey of the Depuy ASR hip: from (quickly) finding its way into the market, then […]