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Have you or a loved one been exposed to a defective medical device or product that has caused a serious life-threatening side effect or been subject to a recall? If so, you should contact us immediately. You may be entitled to compensation and we can help.

Twenty million Americans walk around with high-tech medical gear grinding away inside them. Are they safe?

79 medical devices have been yanked off the market in the past five years because of potentially fatal side effects, up 65% over the previous five years; 2,300 more gadgets have been recalled for lesser complications. And when a recall happens, often the suspect device remains inside patients.

The medical device industry is an $80 billion-a-year business. The manufacturers of these products spend billions of dollars annually advertising and marketing their products to the American consumer. For the most part, these medical devices help to save peoples lives in emergency situations, help people to live longer, better lives by controlling or eliminating disease, infection, illness or by simply improving the person’s quality of life to some degree.

Unfortunately, some of these products are rushed to market without adequate testing and in some cases, brought to market even knowing that there is the potential for serious injury among an undisclosed number of patients. Medical Device manufacturers are paying out on a record number of settlements and verdicts for products liability lawsuits.

As these companies continue to spend billions of dollars on public relations and advertising, while rushing these products to market, they are neglecting to adequately warn consumers of the potential for injury with use of their products until it is too late.

The Alarming Truth - Medical Device Manufacturer Loophole

The medical device industry was barely regulated until 1976, when Congress empowered the FDA to ensure devices were safe, effective and well made. But the new law included a loophole called 510(k) that remains today: A device can be approved with few or no clinical trials if it is deemed "substantially equivalent" to a gadget that existed before 1976. Most of the thousands of devices in use today were cleared under this easy passage.

What You Can Do & How We Can Help

At Schmidt & Clark, we know this to be true because we are contacted on a daily basis by people just like you who are looking for legal representation and information regarding defective products that has been recalled.

The medical device manufacturers have a responsibility to consumers to provide products that are safe and effective and free of manufacturing defects and errors. In addition, these manufacturers need to thoroughly warn consumers when a medical device or product has the potential for injury or unfortunately in some cases, even death.

• Ancure
• Taxus Stent
• Biomedical Tissue Services
• Cordis Cypher Stent
• Defective Defibrillators
• Defective Pacemakers
• Dialysis Side Effects
• Donor Referral Services
• Drug-Eluting Stents
• Guidant
• Hernia Patch Recall
• Kugel Mesh Hernia Patch
• Multi-Link Vision Stent
• Medicated Stents
• Medtronic
• St Jude

Do I have a defective medical device or product recall lawsuit?

The Medical Device Litigation Group at our law firm is an extremely experienced team of trial lawyers that focus exclusively on the representation of plaintiffs in product liability lawsuits. We are handling individual and group litigation nationwide and currently accepting new cases in your area for the medical devices and products listed above.

Attention Attorneys: We do not publish prior verdict/settlements. If you are an attorney and would like to refer us a case or for us to send you a profile of prior award judgments or average referral fees, please visit the attorney referral section of our website.

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