Viviana D. Ruscitto passed away on September 3, 2015 after a struggle with cancer that was suspected to have been spread following surgery using a power morcellator. Ms. Ruscitto was only 43 years old. Patients like Ms. Ruscitto are fatally harmed by the power morcellator, when previously undiagnosed and contained cancer is spread throughout the...
NBC News investigated the safety concerns from patients implanted with the IVC filter, a medical device that is designed to stop blood clots. The news story revealed that 27 deaths are known to have been caused by complications or malfunctions of the IVC filter. Two of the stories shared by NBC stated that the filters killed patients...
Matthew McCarley, has been appointed to the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee (PEC) in the multidistrict litigation (MDL) regarding Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) Filters manufactured by Cook Group, Inc. IVC Filters were implanted to prevent blood clots from becoming coronary or pulmonary embolisms. However, reports first surfaced in 2005, that the radial arms and struts of the...
US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand sent an open letter to the Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration expressing urgent concerns about the dangers of power morcellation devices. Prominent lawmakers, including Tennessee senator Lamar Alexander, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, and Marco Rubio joined a bi-partisan group of senior leaders in the US Senate to...
A recent study from The Journal of the American Medical Association revealed that the benefits of the IVC filter procedure are not always clear, when examined alongside the risks. The study stated that, “Although retrievable inferior vena cava filters are frequently used in addition to anticoagulation in patients with acute venous thromboembolism, their benefit-risk ratio is unclear…...
More recently, a significant number of women and theirs families have brought lawsuits against various manufacturers after doctors used laparoscopic power morcellators during their hysterectomies. These individuals allege that these devices were responsible for spreading undiagnosed cancers and that they were not adequately warned about the potentially deadly risk. Laparoscopic power morcellators have been used...
Two weeks ago, one of the first laparoscopic power morcellator lawsuits that was filed in federal court was finally settled. The plaintiff, widower Scott Burkhart, settled for an undisclosed amount right before it the lawsuit was scheduled to reach trial. He had originally filed the lawsuit in March 2014 against LiNA Medical after his wife,...
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