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: Maryland Injury Lawyer BlogMedical Device Preemption
The Drug and Device Law Blog has a guest post on the status of the Medical Device Safety Act of 2009, a bill that has been introduced in Congress that would overturn the Supreme Court's holding in Riegel v. Medtronic preempting state common law claims challenging the safety of FDA approved medical devices.
The blog can be summarized as follows: Congress is doing nothing.
Full post as published by Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog on May 06, 2010 (boomark / email).
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