Medtronic v. Lohr: state lawsuits may proceed against medical device manufacturers.

Post-decision diagnosis: medical device preemption alive and mostly well after Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr.

In Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr, the United States Supreme Court, in a five-to-four split, held that the Medical Device Amendments of 1976 did not preempt state tort claims against a pacemaker manufacturer. A careful reading of the factually specific holding of this case suggests that manufacturers of medical devices distributed pursuant to premarket approval requirements and investigational device ...

Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr: bad medicine for manufacturers of unproven medical devices.

Tobacco and the law: the state of the art.

Litigation has become a major weapon in the conflict between those who seek to control tobacco and the tobacco industry. Apart from the cases arising from the high proportion of fires caused by cigarettes (including, in the UK, the disastrous fire at the Bradford football stadium and the fire at Kings Cross railway station, both of which were caused by discarded cigarette butts), in the last fe...

Battery longevity in cardiac resynchronization therapy implantable cardioverter defibrillators.

AIMS Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) deliver high burden ventricular pacing to heart failure patients, which has a significant effect on battery longevity. The aim of this study was to investigate whether battery longevity is comparable for CRT-ICDs from different manufacturers in a contemporary cohort of patients. METHODS AND RESULTS All...

Medical school attended as a predictor of medical malpractice claims.

OBJECTIVES Following earlier research which showed that certain types of physicians are more likely to be sued for malpractice, this study explored (1). whether graduates of certain medical schools have consistently higher rates of lawsuits against them, (2). if the rates of lawsuits against physicians are associated with their school of graduation, and (3). whether the characteristics of the m...