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BAIR HUGGER BLANKET SURGICAL INFECTION LAWSUIT UPDATE

Defective Device InformationBy Sarah Showard January 7, 2023

The Bair Hugger Multidistrict litigation in District Court in Minnesota currently has approximately 6,000 filed cases with another 2000 + cases that have signed with attorneys but not yet been filed. Unfortunately, the defendant manufacturer of the product 3M, yes the makers of your favorite sticky notes, is unwilling to seriously consider settlement at…

Surgical Stapler Malfunctions Went to a Hidden Database

Defective Device InformationBy Sarah Showard July 17, 2019

The medical industry is still absorbing the shock from the Food and Drug Administration’s 2019 announcement that more than 56,000 reports of surgical stapler defects from 2011 through 2018 had been kept from public disclosure in a hidden FDA database. Many of those reports included references to excess bleeding and other surgical complications that resulted…