Personal Injury Law

Medtronics Lawsuit

This is the bill introduced in the Senate last year to overturn Medtronic v. Riegel. A similar bill was introduced in the House of Representatives about six months ago. If you look at the Senate bill, you will note that one of the cosponsors was the junior Senator from Illinois. Is President-elect Obama still with medical device victims?

In Bruce Springsteen?s song Jungleland, the police wrongfully shoot and kill the song?s hero. Yet his girlfriend just ?sets out the bedroom light? and the ?poets down here don?t write nothing at all.? Little did I know in high school that this song was going to relate to a mass tort medical device claim like the Medtronic defibrillator lead litigation.

Full post as published by Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog on January 08, 2009 (boomark / email).