A lawsuit filed in New Hampshire against the maker of C-QUR hernia mesh argues that the manufacturer is responsible for the resulting hernia mesh infection that compromised the patient’s overall health and well-being. Plaintiff Michael S. of Indiana filed the hernia mesh lawsuit against the Atrium Medical Corporation, which maintains support and manufacturing facilities in […]
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A lawsuit filed in August 2017 alleges that a patient died as a result of complications from the Option ELITE Retrievable Inferior Vena Cava Filter made by Rex Medical LP and Argon Medical Devices. The surgical implantation of the IVC filter occurred in August 2015 in Georgia and the primary purpose of this device, as with many
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A Montana patient recently filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the popular anticoagulant due to complications he suffered while taking the medication. Allegedly, plaintiff Gregory E. took from August 2013 to September 2015 and suffered from life-threatening bleeding from during that time. Bleeding risks, if not caught early, could lead to catastrophic injuries, organ
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The family of a 26-year-old college student who died after being struck by an inattentive driver will receive $900,000 from the insurance company covering the driver. The college student, Weiqi Wang, was struck by a careless driver of a 2004 Subaru Outback while in a crosswalk on her way to school. Weiqi was a graduate student at
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Another plaintiff has joined a hernia mesh multidistrict litigation after suffering injuries from hernia mesh removal surgery. Plaintiff Letha Dillard has joined the MDL alleging defendants Atrium, Maquet Cardiovascular and Getinge Ab are responsible for pain and injuries she suffered after her hernia mesh was removed by surgery. The plaintiff alleges that hernia mesh was implanted surgically on
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Have you recently taken and suffered strange and unexpected side effects as a result? If so, you’re not alone- a new lawsuit filed against manufacturers alleges that the company should have known about or knew about and failed to warn patients about the high risk of gastrointestinal bleeding. The lawsuit argues that defendants Janssen Research
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Despite complications linked to inferior vena cava (IVC) filters, the IVC filter market appears to be expanding. A 2014 study published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery — Venous and Lymphatic Disorders found that the number of IVC filters placed in patients in the U.S. increased by 234 percent between 2000 and 2009. Designed to
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A California man has filed a hernia mesh repair surgery lawsuit in New Hampshire federal court, home of Atrium Medical Corp., which is the subject of a multidistrict products liability litigation. Robert Olmstead had a C-Qur Mesh V-patch implanted in July 24, 2012 and removed Aug. 28, 2015, at the Kaiser Permanente Vacaville Medical Center
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Hundreds of patients have filed product liability lawsuits against the manufacturers of their hernia mesh devices used in hernia mesh surgeries. These plaintiffs claim that the use of hernia mesh has resulted in severe complications. However, despite these complications the hernia mesh market continues to grow. One news source has reported a growth in the
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It has been reported that C.R. Bard continued to sell IVC filters even after blood clot filter problems resulted in at least 27 deaths and a host of other complications. What is a Blood Clot Filter? Many times, when patients are at a high risk for blood clots, they are not good candidates for blood
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Bayer HealthCare, the makers of blood thinning drug , was recently told a bellwether trial would move forward after Bayer requested a summary judgment. This bellwether trial, citing mainly Bayer’s failure to warn about severe bleeding injuries, is the third bellwether trial to be heard in this massive multidistrict litigation. A bellwether trial is essentially
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), a nonprofit Virginia-based vehicle safety research group, says that side guards installed on tractor-trailers could save lives in accidents, according to an article by WUSA9. The Department of Transportation, however, has rejected proposals for any additional rules requiring side guards on tractor-trailers to be required. Lois D. is
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Texas is the second-largest state in both size — 261,797-square-miles — and population — more than 27 million people — but the sprawling Lone Star State commanded the No. 1 spot when it came to the number of road fatalities and the number of road deaths per 100,000 people in 2014, according to financial news
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U.S. doctors have decreased their use of inferior vena cava (IVC) filters since a 2010 safety communication from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but the devices — an alternative for blood-thinners to prevent a pulmonary embolism — continue to be implanted at “unacceptably high rates,” according to an article published on TCTMD.com, an interventional
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Some 745 U.S. truck drivers died on the job in 2015, more than any other occupation, according to the 2015 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, published by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Statistics. Truck driver deaths that year accounted for more than 25 percent of all fatal work injuries. A 2017 CNBC report
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