Clients represented
by our firm filed the first personal injury
lawsuits in the nation against Medtronic.
We have been appointed to a leadership
role among plaintiffs' counsel in the litigation
against Medtronic in federal court.
Our
injury lawyers have years of experience
successfully representing clients in personal
injury cases. We provide each client with
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We have retained product safety and medical experts
nationwide to assist our clients with their claims.
In addition to a team of experienced lawyers,
we have dedicated nurses, legal assistants
and case clerks to assist our attorneys in
the Medtronic recall litigation. Our firm
has six full-time nurses, including ones
with decades of experience working with heart
patients.
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Medtronic News
Read excerpts from the latest
news covering the Medtronic recall and lawsuits:
Lieff Cabraser had
been investigating patient complaints
concerning the Medtronic heart lead prior
to the recall announced by Medtronic. On
the same day as the recall, heart patients
nationwide represented by Lieff Cabraser
and co-counsel filed separate personal
injury and class action lawsuits against
Medtronic.
The Associated Press, "Medtronic
Recall: Medtronic sued for Faulty Lead"
Recalls had already battered the heart device
industry when Medtronic warned doctors that the wires connecting a patient's
heart to its implantable defibrillators break too often. Medtronic told
doctors to stop using the Sprint Fidelis wires after linking five deaths
to breaks in them. The company said the Fidelis wires failed slightly
more often than the thicker wires they were meant to replace. The problem
does not affect Medtronic pacemakers.
Dr. Robert Hauser, a whistleblower in the recall of Guidant defibrillators,
applauded Medtronic's decision to halt the use of Sprint Fidelis wires
as "obviously the right thing to do." "I would like to
have seen them take it off the market earlier," said Hauser, a senior
consulting cardiologist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott
Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis.
Hauser and colleagues published a study in July in the medical journal
HeartRhythm that concluded the leads are prone to early failure, and
recommended limited use until the problem is fixed. Medtronic and the
FDA had a copy of their manuscript in February, he said. The company
probably didn't act earlier because there was no consensus in the medical
community about the leads, he said. "This really came to a head
in the past month when there was a crescendo of reports and of events
that may have been more concerning, including deaths," Hauser said.
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