November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and in an effort to fight this debilitating disease that affects an estimated 5.7 million Americans, Chaffin Luhana LLP team members, Roopal Luhana and Justin Joseph interviewed Dr. Daniel Alkon. Dr. Daniel Alkon is the President and Chief…
Global online news organization The Guardian, together with the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) and other news organizations, has launched a new investigation into pacemakers, contraceptives, breast implants, hip implants, and other medical devices that have been found over the years to be defective or linked…
Global online news organization The Guardian, along with other news organizations, is investigating the medical implants industry in the wake of thousands of reports showing adverse events linked with devices like hip implants and hernia mesh implants. A large number of these devices have been…
Back in May 2017, New Jersey consolidated all state-filed Stryker LFIT V40 hip implant lawsuits into one court in Bergen County for pretrial proceedings. This was just a month after federal cases were brought together in the District of Massachusetts. Both courts have been working…
Ethicon recalled its Physiomesh hernia mesh back in May 2016, due to reports that showed recurrence and reoperation rates were “higher than the average rates of the comparator set of meshes among patients in these registries.” After that, many patients who had been implanted with…
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) ordered all federally-filed Onglyza lawsuits consolidated into the Eastern District of Kentucky back in February 2018. Since then, District Judge Karen K. Caldwell has been overseeing the pre-trial proceedings. There are currently over 200 cases pending in…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently announced that Ford Motor Company was recalling about 1.3 million Ford Focus vehicles because of problems that could lead to a crash hazard. Ford will notify owners and offer a free repair to fix the issue. Ford…
In a recent safety communication, the FDA warned patients and eye doctors about problems associated with the Raindrop Near Vision Inlay, a medical device that helps improve near vision. The device has the potential to increase the risk of corneal haze, a type of cloudiness…
November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and in an effort to fight this debilitating disease that affects an estimated 5.7 million Americans, Chaffin Luhana LLP team members, Danielle Leppar, Francesca Clements, and Dan Reo interviewed Max Tokarsky, the Founder and CEO of InvestAcure. The…
The U.S Senate Commerce Committee had planned a hearing on reports of engine fires in Hyundai and Kia vehicles for November 14, 2018. The Committee recently stated, however, that the hearing had been put on hold, but may be rescheduled for a future date. Frederick…
