The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced the recall of over 60,000 Abbott Assurity and Endurity Pacemakers. The FDA has identified this as a Class I recall, which is the most serious type and indicates that the use of the products could cause…
A North Carolina woman has filed a new ParaGard IUD lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. She claims that after using the birth-control device, she suffered from significant injuries. ParaGard Breaks When Doctor Tries to Remove It The…
A Tennessee couple has filed a new Ethicon Physiomesh lawsuit against manufacturer Ethicon and parent company Johnson & Johnson. The couple claims that after the wife went through hernia repair surgery with the mesh, she suffered from serious injuries. They filed the case in the…
On October 5, 2017, a New Mexico woman filed a Covidien hernia mesh lawsuit in the District of New Mexico. She claims that after she was implanted with the mesh, she experienced serious injuries that required additional hospitalization. She seeks in excess of $75,000 in…
On August 10, 2017, the FDA released an update alerting health care providers to concerning developments with gastric balloons, which are used to help treat obesity. From 2016 to the date of the update, the FDA had received five reports of deaths linked to these…
An Ethicon Physiomesh lawsuit is pending in New Jersey state court. An Arkansas woman filed the case on August 3, 2017, in Middlesex County, claiming that after she was implanted with the mesh, she suffered from serious injuries. The manufacturer, a subsidiary of Johnson &…
A recall announced in February 2017 could affect hundreds of patients who went through total shoulder replacement surgery. Shoulder replacements manufacturer Zimmer recalled a total of 3,662 Zimmer Biomet Comprehensive Reverse Shoulder Humeral components because of higher than expected fracturing rates. These fractures could result…
At the end of January 2017, plaintiffs involved in heater-cooler lawsuits filed a petition with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to consolidate all federally filed cases into one court for pre-trial proceedings. They argued that all the current lawsuits share common questions…
Johnson & Johnson is stopping the sale of power morcellators after the FDA news release that discouraged doctors from using the device for uterine surgery due to the risk of spreading cancer. According to The Wall Street Journal, J&J started selling the devices in 1998…
