Disability Law

Former Umpire seeks accountability for Failed Hip Replacement
Mark Hirschbeck ?had his dream job as a Major League Baseball umpire and reached a career high with the 2001 World Series, but he says what started as a routine hip replacement surgery cost him his career and has led to years of pain? (New Haven Register, Sullo 7/21)...

Medical Device Foot-Dragging by the FDA: 19 Years and Counting…
Washington, DC: It is of little comfort to anyone with a medical device that the federal authority charged with husbanding medical devices for safety—the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—has been so lax in updating rules that ensure their safety...

Medical Device Safety Act hearing, the PR angle
The House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Health, holds a hearing Tuesday on H.R. 1346, the Medical Device Safety Act, the bill to eliminate federal preemption in civil suits involving FDA-approved medical devices...

Trial Practice Investigation - Medical Device Safety
Let's say you've got a case involving medical devices and it's a contraption you've never seen or heard about. What can you do to become educated about it and about how it has tested in the field of commerce - in this case the medical community...

Lawmakers Push Forward with Medical Device Bill
Democratic lawmakers last week reintroduced legislation that aims to overturn a Supreme Court decision that insulated medical device makers from lawsuits. The bill, the Medical Device Safety Act, comes on the heels of a Supreme Court case that rejected similar legal protection for pharmaceutical companies...

Hearings on the Medical Device Safety Act of 2009
For those who are following the Medical Device Safety Act of 2009 -- the bill that would reverse the Supreme Court's pro-preemption decision in Riegel v. Medtronic, here are two links:First, a short list of the names and affiliations of the witnesses who testified yesterday before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee...

Medical Device Safety Act
Today, medical device patients and attorneys from around the country will travel to Washington, DC for a Lobby Day to ask Congress to support HR 1346/S 540, the Medical Device Safety Act (MDSA)...

Firestone Tire Problems Raise Questions of Safety
Are Your Car Tires Safe?

National Practitioner Data Bank Fact
NPDB identifies unprofessional healthcare practitioners

Military Veterans Benefits
How to obtain full range of benefits for veterans and dependnets

Military Veterans Benefits, Part 2
Training, Healthcare, and Death Benefits

Patent Infringement
Cardia agrees to pay $2.25 million settlement in medical device lawsuit.

Requip
alleging behavior urges users to gamble, shop, and eat compulsively.

Medtronic CD Horizon
allegedly recalled as defective device for being prone to failure, shearing and cable breaks.

Safety Violations
Murphy Oil USA Inc. to pay $179,100 settlement in occupational safety violations lawsuit.

Ballot Device
Election Systems and Software agrees to pays city of San Francisco $3.5 million settlement after problems with AutoMARK lead to prolonged hand counting of votes.

Medical Technology
Ventana Medical Systems Inc. pays CytoLogix Corp. $49 million patent infringement settlement.