Lieff Cabraser represents
persons across America injured by the
Medtronic Sprint Fidelis heart lead. Click
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Our Promise to You
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
high-level individualized representation.
There is no charge or obligation for our review
of your injury lawsuit.
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.
Medtronic Heart Lead Recall
News Article Excerpt
December 13, 2007
The New York Times, "Medtronic
Patients Wonder Whether to Replace a Wire That Might Fail"
For one heart patient, there will be no more
agonizing over whether the implanted device meant to save his life might
kill him instead. On Tuesday, two months after Medtronic warned doctors
and nearly a quarter-million patients that a wire, or lead, connecting
their electronic defibrillators to their hearts might break, the 48-year-old
patient had the lead and defibrillator removed and replaced. It required
a painstaking 90-minute operation here at Morristown Memorial Hospital.
But
thousands of other patients with failing hearts remain trapped in doubt.
Their defibrillators are meant to deliver electric shocks to restore
normal rhythms if their hearts start beating chaotically. Should they
have the potentially faulty wire, or lead, removed -- or leave it
in place and hope it does not fail?
And if they do have it extracted,
how will they pay for it? Medtronic is limiting its contribution to only
a replacement lead and $800 toward each procedure, which can cost $12,500
or more. So far insurers are deciding whether to cover the replacement
operation on a case-by-case basis, unless the lead has already fractured.
The lead, called the Fidelis, is a spaghetti-thin plastic tube enclosing
electrical wires and sensors. The risks of the patient’s operation,
besides the possibility for infection, included potential perforation
of his heart and the veins in his chest.
Founded in 1972, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein,
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Francisco, New York and Nashville. For the last seven years,
the National
Law Journal has recognized Lieff Cabraser
as one of the top plaintiff law firms in America.
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