{"id":1172,"date":"2013-10-12T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagomedicalmalpracticeattorney-blog.com\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2019-10-17T06:11:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:11:30","slug":"medical-device-cases-brightened-recent-u-s-court-appeals-decision-stengel-v-medtronic-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/medical-device-cases-brightened-recent-u-s-court-appeals-decision-stengel-v-medtronic-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Device Cases Brightened by Recent U.S. Court of Appeals Decision; Stengel v. Medtronic, Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In a 9<sup>th<\/sup> Circuit decision handed down in January 2013, the court of appeals found that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/medicaldevices\/productsandmedicalprocedures\/deviceapprovalsandclearances\/pmaapprovals\/default.htm\">Medical Device Amendments<\/a> (MDA) to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act were not a wedge to prevent a plaintiff from making a state negligence claim against Medtronic.<span>\u00a0<\/span>In a series of previous cases dating back to 2008, defendants, manufacturers and distributors of medical devices were armed with preemption defenses as a result of the cases of <i>Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc.<\/i> and bolstered by <i>Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly<\/i> and <i>Ashcroft v. Iqbal<\/i>.<span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Because of the conflicts in the different U.S. Circuit Courts, there is a good possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will take up these cases to clarify this litigation and rectify the conflict in the districts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the <i>Stengel v. Medtronic<\/i> case, the 9<sup>th<\/sup> Circuit held that the plaintiff\u2019s claim of state law negligence for the defendant\u2019s choosing not to report known risks of its product to the FDA, was not expressly nor impliedly preempted by the Medical Device Amendments to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the <i>Stengel <\/i>case, Stengel had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medtronic.com\/\">Medtronic<\/a> pump implanted in his abdomen to control pain he had in his back.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Unfortunately, an inflammatory mass formed at the tip of the pump\u2019s catheter that caused permanent paraplegia.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/medical-device-cases-brightened-recent-u-s-court-appeals-decision-stengel-v-medtronic-inc\/#more-1172\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a 9th Circuit decision handed down in January 2013, the court of appeals found that the Medical Device Amendments (MDA) to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act were not a wedge to prevent a plaintiff from making a state negligence claim against Medtronic.\u00a0In a series of previous cases dating back to 2008, defendants, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,35,8,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-civil-procedure","category-federal-preemption-law","category-medical-device-liability","category-medical-news","category-product-liability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Medical Device Cases Brightened by Recent U.S. Court of Appeals Decision; Stengel v. 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