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: Bodily Injury BlogLawmakers Push Forward with Medical Device Bill
By Edward Bills
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. In response, the medical device industry criticized the bill, predicting that it would stifle medical innovation.
Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on March 09, 2009 (boomark / email).
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