Medtronic InFuse Lawsuit Proceeds In Court, Despite Manufacturer Protests Medtronic moved to have an InFuse bone graft lawsuit dismissed in court, but the judge ruled that the plaintiff’s injuries constituted grounds to sue. infuse bone graft lawsuit, medtronic infuse lawsuit

Medtronic is the defendant in yet another Infuse bone graft lawsuit filed by a patient who alleges severe complications, physical pain and suffering and financial losses after having the product implanted in an off-label surgery. The personal injury/products liability claim was originally filed by the... Read More

On August 21, 2013, plaintiffs filed a Medtronic Infuse lawsuit in the Pike Circuit Court of Kentucky. However, on September 25, 2013, the case was removed to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. This personal injury/product liability lawsuit was filed on... Read More

Recent research conducted by a team at Stanford’s School of Medicine found that exposure to large quantities of Medtronic Infuse recombinant bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) was linked with an increased rate of cancer. The results of the study, which highlight the Medtronic Infuse cancer risk,... Read More

A study published this month by Duke University raises new concerns about Medtronic's Infuse bone graft product. Published in the medical journal Neurosurgery, the study examines the potential link between the use of a bioengineered protein called BMP, which is contained in the Infuse bone graft, and... Read More

An Oregon district judge ruled that the bulk of the claims in an Infuse bone grafting device lawsuit will survive preemption motions filed by Medtronic, in regards to the manufacturer’s duties under federal law. The suit in question was filed by Richard D. Alton, who... Read More

An Arizona judge has ruled that state-level claims accusing Medtronic of improperly promoting off-label use of their Infuse bone graft product are not preempted and stand independently of federal law. On August 21, Judge G. Murray Snow issued an order explaining that when a medical... Read More

A lawsuit involving Infuse bone graft complications was recently filed. The Medtronic spinal fusion lawsuit, brought over the Infuse device, has been transferred from the District of California Central (Case Number 2:12-CV-07884) to the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri (St. Louis) (Case Number 4:13-CV-01087) on... Read More