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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 4, 2009
Des Moines Register, "Iowan to testify on medical device lawsuits"
An Iowan with a harrowing story to tell is scheduled to testify today on Capitol Hill as a U.S. Senate committee discusses manufacturers' liability when medical devices fail. Mike Mulvihill, 64, of Bettendorf was driving through Ohio en route to the East Coast two years ago when his internal defibrillator went off repeatedly. The jolts of electricity into his chest were excruciating, making it difficult for him to guide his car - with his wife alongside him - through a construction zone and to the shoulder.
After emergency surgery at Ohio State University, Mulvihill recovered from what doctors told him were more than 20 unexpected charges to his heart over the course of an hour. Trauma and effects of the ordeal prompted him to retire a year early from nearly 30 years as a golf course irrigation-system salesman. Today, he hopes his story will inform members of the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee as they consider writing legislation to allow individual medical device users to sue the manufacturers. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that manufacturers of medical devices approved by the Food and Drug Administration were shielded from individual product liability lawsuits.
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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