Two medical professors at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice — and the co-chairs of the steering committee of Preventing Overdiagnosis, an international conference that will be held at the National Institutes of Health in September — recently co-authored an editorial on... Read More

The parents of a stillborn baby have filed a birth injury lawsuit against the United States of America, the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the Tennessee healthcare system that provided care to the mother and child. The mother’s due date was... Read More

In early June, the first Wright hip failure lawsuit to go to trial ended with a $4.5 million jury award. The trial took place in Los Angeles and was brought by plaintiff Alan Warner, who claimed that his Wright Profemur R hip replacement broke just... Read More

The judge overseeing multidistrict litigation involving Ethicon mesh lawsuits in West Virginia has made the decision to consolidate more than two dozen of those lawsuits for trial this fall. This decision comes as more than 23,000 complaints against Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary Ethicon remain pending... Read More

On April 14, 2015, a New Jersey plaintiff filed a product liability and negligence lawsuit against Minnesota-based Medtronic, Inc. regarding its unsafe and unlawful promotion of the Infuse bone graft product used in complex spinal surgery. The lawsuit alleges, among other accusations, that Medtronic improperly... Read More

Researchers at Australia’s Adelaide University have found that as many as 45 percent of cerebral palsy cases are caused by genetic mutation — not by complications at birth. The study adds to research released in February, revealing that 14% of cases had a genetic link.... Read More

Another lawsuit has been filed regarding Mirena uterine perforation, alleging that the popular brand of IUD caused serious damage and pain for a California woman. Chelsea Dawn McClune vs. Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Case 2:15-cv-03874-SDW-SCM) was filed on June 9, 2015 in the US District... Read More

A $100 million transvaginal mesh verdict has been awarded to the plaintiff in the latest lawsuit filed against manufacturer Boston Scientific over their allegedly defective mesh product. The Delaware jury handed down the award on May 28th after a two-week trial and seven hours of... Read More