Defective Medical Devices

3M has decided to pay $6 billion to settle 300,000 cases relating to their combat earplugs over the next five years. Use of these earplugs in the military resulted in permanent hearing loss and tinnitus injuries. 3M’s Combat Arms earplugs were used in US Military training and combat from 2003 to 2015 including in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is widely believed that 3M knowingly hid “design flaws, fudged test results and failed to provide instructions for the proper use of the earplugs.” Aearo, the company responsible for manufacturing the earplugs for 3M, filed for bankruptcy in July 2022. 3M pledged […]

After holding a meeting with patients and attorneys regarding the birth control implant Essure, the FDA Commissioner issued a statement regarding the device and the concerns of those he met with. Bayer, the maker of the device, estimates that more than 750,000 women worldwide have had the device implanted since 2002 (Gottlieb, 2018). In 2016, [...]

A Phoenix woman was awarded $3.6 million in damages when a jury found C.R. Bard Inc. 80 percent responsible when her clot-stopping, Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) filter device broke apart in her body. However, the jury found that Bard was not liable for the product liability design defect, strict product liability failure to warn, or [...]

Pelvic mesh implants have been known to cause some serious harm to women who have had them implanted within their bodies. Commonly used to correct pelvic organ prolapse (POP), they are supposed to strengthen the pelvic wall and support internal organs. But after thousands of injuries were reported, the FDA has finally labeled pelvic mesh [...]

Have you or someone you love had an inferior vena cava (IVC) filter implanted in your body to prevent pulmonary emboli? Thousands of individuals have had the dangerous medical devices implanted, and hundreds of users have experienced severe side effects as a result. The devices are meant to act as a filter and prevent blood [...]

IVC filters have been found to be highly dangerous for those they are implanted within. The defective medical devices, which are designed to reduce the risk of pulmonary embolisms in patients, have been linked to hundreds of adverse event reports, including 27 deaths. After being implanted into the inferior vena cava (IVC), or one of [...]

Boston Scientific to Face First Federal Trialsby Brayton Purcell LLP | Nov 13, 2014 | Defective Medical Devices | In the last six years transvaginal mesh has become one of the most sued-over medical devices in U.S. history. Adding to that legacy is Boston Scientific Corp., set to face its first federal trials in two [...]

Thousands Injured from Transvaginal Mesh Device, Litigation Continuesby Brayton Purcell LLP | Sep 24, 2014 | Defective Medical Devices | Surgical mesh was first approved by the FDA in the 1950s to repair hernias. In the 1990s, the product was expanded to treat pelvic organ prolapsed and stress urinary incontinence conditions, particularly for women post-childbirth. [...]

Record Setting Verdict of $73 Million in Mesh Caseby Brayton Purcell LLP | Sep 18, 2014 | Defective Medical Devices | Boston Scientific, a Massachusetts-based medical device company, was ordered to pay $73 million after a jury found that it was liable for leaving a woman in severe pain following a vaginal mesh implant. The [...]