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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
August 11, 2009
New Jersey Courier News, "Belle Mead woman pitches Medical Device Safety Act to Congress"
Several years ago, Jan Beadling received a defibrillator as a "safety net" in case her heart stopped. Everything seemed fine until New Year's Eve 2007. On what was supposed to be a celebratory night, Jan's husband, Walt, gave her a kiss on her cheek. Without warning, she jumped, having felt some sort of an electric shock course through her body. Something was not right, and doctors later confirmed that the defibrillator lead had fractured and needed to be replaced. Defibrillators are implanted heart devices that shock dangerous abnormal heart rhythms back to a normal rhythm.
Beadling received a new lead, but still lives with the defective one in place because removal could put her life at risk. Medtronic, the maker of the defective lead, had recalled them after more than 120 incidents of fractures and malfunctions. But unfortunately for Beadling, the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008 ruled in Riegel v. Medtronic that manufacturers of class III medical devices such as her defibrillator, which have been approved through the Food and Drug Administration's premarket approval process, essentially are immune from liability.
About Lieff Cabraser
Founded in 1972, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein,
LLP is an over sixty attorney law firm with offices in San
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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