By Benjamin Koplin , Selina Coleman and R. Jeffrey Layne The Vermont Attorney General's Office announced an offer to accept a limited penalty from medical device and biologic manufacturers to resolve failure to report expenses related to health... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — (Mealey’s) The U.S. Supreme Court on June 23 let stand a federal appeals court ruling that there is no preemption of a claim that medical device manufacturer Medtronic Inc. violated its duty under federal law to report adverse... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) Medical device maker Smith & Nephew PLC and its American subsidiary will pay $22.2 million to settle federal criminal and civil complaints that it bribed Greek government doctors to use the company's products... Read More

NEW ORLEANS -- (Mealey's) A woman's failure-to-warn claims involving a uterine ablation device are not preempted by federal law, a panel of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Jan. 21 ( Jan Hughes v. Boston Scientific Corporation... Read More

MURRAY HILL, N.J. - (Mealey's) C.R. Bard Inc. on Jan. 27 reported that it has taken a $51 million charge in connection with a preliminary agreement with the civil and criminal divisions of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of... Read More

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco-based Seeger Salvas LLP on Aug. 30 filed a series of four lawsuits on behalf of patients from Los Angeles, Chicago, Arizona and Virginia on behalf of hip implant patients who required a painful and expensive second procedure... Read More

ATLANTA - Russell Rogers, a partner in Thompson Hine LLP's Business Litigation and Product Liability Litigation practice groups, assumed leadership of the firm's Atlanta office effective Dec. 1. Rogers replaced Walt Addison Linscott, who will... Read More

NEW YORK - After more than 15 years as a senior partner in the New York personal injury firm Rheingold, Valet, Rheingold, Shkolnik & McCartney LLP, Hunter Shkolnik has joined Napoli Bern Ripka LLP as a senior partner of the firm, which is now known... Read More

ATLANTA - Greenberg Traurig's Atlanta-based national Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Health Care Litigation Practice Group continues to grow with the addition of Ginger Heyman Pigott . Pigott, who joins as a shareholder, will work closely... Read More

CINCINNATI - Ulmer & Berne LLP has announced the addition of Kimberly L. Beck as an associate to the firm's Cincinnati office. Before joining Ulmer & Berne, Beck was an associate at Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, where she handled a wide variety... Read More