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PRESS RELEASE: On February 6, 2012, Bernstein Liebhard LLP reported on a newly introduced bill that would prevent medical device manufacturers from using the 510(k) process to receive FDA approval if they are predicated on previously recalled products. Bernstein Liebhard LLP reports that on Ja...

On January 20, 2012, Representative Henry Waxman of California led House Democrats from the Energy and Commerce Committee in writing a letter to several chairmen, requesting that the Committee hold hearings to review the safety of medical devices implanted into patients as well as request documents ...

PRESS RELEASE: On February 1, 2012, Bernstein Liebhard LLP reported that more than 900 federal DePuy Pinnacle hip replacement lawsuits  have been filed and have been included in the multidistrict litigation, In re: DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. Pinnacle Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation (“M...

PRESS RELEASE: On January 30, 2012, Bernstein Liebhard LLP reported that health regulators in Britain are concerned that recipients of the metal-on-metal DePuy ASR hip implants were never notified that the devices were recalled.  In August 2010, DePuy Orthopaedics, a subsidiary of Johnson & ...

When first introduced to the market, metal-on-metal artificial joints, such as the DePuy hip replacement implants were expected to last longer than traditional implants, which combined metal and polyethylene.  However, recent studies have identified a range of problems commonly associated with meta...

On January 23, 2012, the Honorable David A. Katz held a status conference in In re: DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. ASR Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation (“MDL No. 2197”), which is currently underway in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.  In 2010, DePuy issued a worldwi...

PRESS RELEASE: Bernstein Liebhard LLP reports that on December 8, 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) sent a warning letter to Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, DePuy Orthopaedics, to stop selling joint replacements that have not been properly approved by the FDA.  According...

PRESS RELEASE: Bernstein Liebhard LLP reports on a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, concluding that bone loss and osteoporosis develop so slowly that women who have normal bone density at age 65 can wait 15 years before undergoing a second bone density test.  As report...

On January 12, 2012, Judge Carol E. Higbee held case management conferences in the In re Pelvic Mesh/Gynecare and In re Pelvic Mesh/Bard Litigations.  Judge Higbee presides over both centralized actions, which involve all of the transvaginal mesh lawsuits filed in New Jersey state court.  Bernstei...

PRESS RELEASE: Bernstein Liebhard LLP reports on a new law that would compel drug and medical device manufacturers to disclose any money paid to doctors for research, speaking, consulting, travel and entertainment.  According to a January 17, 2012 article published in the New York Times, under t...