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Recent Update Last week, an Arizona federal court denied Bard’s request for a new trial or judgment on the April verdict. The company argued that the “evidence underpinning the award was lacking and called the verdict ‘irreconcilably inconsistent,’ since the jury sided with plaintiff Sherri Booker on a negligent failure to warn claim but not on a nearly identical strict...

In July of 2018 Bayer announced that it would discontinue the sale of Essure medical devices by December 31, 2018. If you have suffered side effects associated with an Essure implant, talk to an attorney at Hammers Law Firm today as you may be eligible for compensations. Marketed as a “permanent contraceptive”, Essure is a non-surgical sterilization device consisting of two metal...

On Monday, November 26th, the Food and Drug Administration announced they would be overhauling the most common process of medical device approval. In 2017, the FDA cleared 3,173 devices under the 510(K) process, or 82 percent of the total devices cleared or approved, Gottlieb and Shuren said in their statement to the press. “Data shows that nearly 20 percent of current 510(k)s...