Last year Exactech issued a recall for over 147,000 knee and ankle implants and over 90,000 hip implants across the United States. Implants created in 2004 or later may have been comprised due to packaging issues, potentially leading patients to suffer from bone loss and revision surgery.
A Florida Federal jury awarded $8 million in damages to a serviceman who suffered hearing loss while using 3M earplugs. This ruling is a part of a string of bellwether lawsuits against the diversified technology company.
Talcum powder is an ingredient used in some baby powders and have recently been linked to ovarian cancer. This has triggered an onslaught of lawsuits against the manufacturers.
The Atlantic published an interesting story involving innocent patients who were talked into undergoing unnecessarily Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) closures. Fleming, Nolen and Jez represented over 1,200 of these unfortunate victims of medical malpractice.
After speaking with a healthcare professional, we typically assume the treatment that is being prescribed is going to add positive benefits to our overall health. In some cases, however, this ideal is tested. A great example to this is the recent recall of CPAP machines issued by Philips Respironics.
The attorneys at Fleming, Nolen & Jez are currently investigating the complications that can affect patients whose hernias were treated with a mesh prosthetic.
Until the middle of the 19th-century infant food was generally made at home and consisted of finely ground grains (oats, rice, barley) mixed with water or milk. Today packaged foods made for babies and toddlers are manufactured by large corporations and used by more than 90 percent of parents with children 3 and under.
Medtronic discontinued its Heart Ware Heart Ventricular Assist Device pump this June 2021 amid a series of Class I recalls and numerous reports of patient injuries and deaths associated with the product.
Every year, thousands of people are implanted with a device known as an inferior vena cava (IVC) filter. Inserted into a patient’s main vein in the body where blood returns to the heart from the lower body, the device is meant to help people recovering from accidents and surgeries by preventing potentially fatal blood clots.
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