Personal Injury Law

Judege dismisses Medronic lawsuits

By Edward Bills

The Wall Street Journal reports, “A federal judge threw out lawsuits on behalf of thousands of patients with heart-defibrillator wires that have been shown to fracture and dispatch potentially lethal shocks, concluding that a recent Supreme Court opinion made the dismissals inevitable” because that case said “that federal law ‘pre-empts’ product-liability lawsuits under state law, effectively precluding such cases.” The judge said, “The Court recognizes that at least some plaintiffs have suffered injuries from using Sprint Fidelis leads, and the Court is not unsympathetic to their plight.” He added, however, that “the plaintiffs’ remedy ‘lies with Congress.’”

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on January 07, 2009 (boomark / email).