FDA Plans IDs to Track Medical Device Safety
Medical devices like hip implants and heart defibrillators will soon join the ranks of cars and toasters. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday proposed a new rule that would require each...
View ArticleFood Borne Illness Cases Present Complex Coverage Questions
One of the most heavily litigated insurance issues in coverage liability cases related to outbreaks of widespread food borne illnesses is the determination of occurrence where multiple people in...
View ArticleNew Food Safety Rules Delayed to Weigh Farmers’ Concerns: FDA
Food safety rules the U.S. planned to implement this year are being delayed by months because the requirements were too complex for some farmers, regulators said. Two core rules of the Food Safety...
View ArticleACE Westchester Extends Its Product Recall Insurance to Small Businesses
ACE Westchester has launched ACE Recall Plus for Small Business, a product that offers product recall coverage and crisis management services to the small business market segment. The move follows an...
View ArticleCalifornia “Superbug” Outbreak Prompts FDA Alert on Device
The complex design of endoscopes that have been linked to a “superbug” outbreak at the UCLA Health System in California may hinder proper cleaning, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned on...
View ArticleCalifornia Company Among Those to Recall Frozen Spinach
Three organic food companies that use spinach in their food have recalled hundreds of thousands of items over listeria concerns. Organic food company Amy’s Kitchen, in Petaluma, Calif., has voluntarily...
View ArticleNew ‘Superbug’ Linked to Scope Found at California Hospital
A Los Angeles-area hospital said that some of its patients contracted an antibiotic-resistant “superbug” that has been linked to a type of medical scope and infected dozens of people around the...
View ArticleFDA Extends Required Warnings to Short-Acting Opioid Painkillers
Short-acting opioid painkillers will carry strong new warnings under U.S. Food and Drug Administration requirements announced on Tuesday that will bring information about addiction and abuse in line...
View ArticleAlabama Seafood Company to Halt Fish Processing Due to Unsanitary Conditions
Federal court officials say an Alabama seafood company has agreed to stop processing fish after complaints were raised by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. U.S. District Court officials said in a...
View ArticleNew York County Sues Purdue, J&J Over Opioid Marketing
A county in New York state has sued Purdue Pharma LP, Johnson & Johnson and other drugmakers, accusing them of engaging in fraudulent marketing that played down the risks of prescription opioid...
View ArticleAlabama ‘Pill Mill’ Doctor Gets 21 Years in Prison
An Alabama doctor was sentenced on Friday to 21 years in prison for running two clinics with a colleague that prosecutors called a massive “pill mill,” in a case tied to the U.S. probe of Insys...
View Article3 Tennessee Prosecutors Join Forces in Suit Against Opioid Drug Makers
A new lawsuit invokes the plight of a baby born dependent on opioid drugs, as three Tennessee prosecutors and the baby’s guardian accuse several drug manufacturers of unleashing an epidemic through...
View ArticleChuck Norris Suing in California over MRI Chemical He Says Poisoned Wife
Action star Chuck Norris took on medical device manufacturers in a lawsuit filed in California alleging a chemical used in MRI imaging scans poisoned his wife. Gadolinium that doctors injected into...
View ArticleKentucky Accuses Endo of Contributing to Opioid Epidemic
Kentucky accused units of Endo International Plc on Monday of contributing to drug overdoses and an opioid epidemic by deceptively marketing its painkiller Opana ER, the latest lawsuit by state or...
View ArticleFDA Says 12 Deaths Now Linked to Balloon Treatment for Obesity
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday notified healthcare providers that it had received reports of five more deaths in patients using liquid-filled intragastric balloon systems to treat...
View ArticleMassachusetts Sues Opioid Maker Purdue Pharma, Executives
Massachusetts on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma LP, accusing the OxyContin maker of illegally promoting the use of opioids, and became the first state to sue the drugmaker’s executives...
View ArticleOpioid Makers Endure Setback as Judge Lets New York Lawsuit Proceed
Purdue Pharma LP, Johnson & Johnson and other opioid makers faced one of the first extensive reviews of their legal defenses to claims they violated consumer-protection laws and created a public...
View ArticleJury Awards $383M in Wrongful Death Suits Against Colorado Dialysis Provider
A federal jury in Denver, Colo. awarded $383.5 million to the families of three patients who died of cardiac arrest after treatments at clinics run by dialysis provider DaVita Inc. Attorneys for the...
View ArticleMississippi Woman Sues Pepperidge Farm Over Contaminated Goldfish Crackers
A Mississippi woman is making a federal case out of a life-threatening bout with salmonella that she blames on Goldfish crackers. The Clarion Ledger reported Friday that 26-year-old Bailey Finch is...
View ArticleNew York Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma Over Opioids
New York state on Tuesday sued Purdue Pharma LP, accusing the OxyContin maker of widespread fraud and deception in the marketing of opioids, and contributing to a nationwide epidemic that has killed...
View ArticleSouth Carolina Medical Marijuana Bill Stalls in State Senate
A South Carolina senator says a bill aiming to legalize the medicinal use of marijuana will not move forward until lawmakers address concerns of stakeholders. Members of the Senate Medical Affairs...
View ArticleTennessee Appeals Court Says Opioid Producers Can Be Sued
The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled that a lawsuit against opioid makers can move forward, overturning a lower court that had dismissed the claims. At issue is whether Tennessee’s Drug Dealer...
View ArticlePhilips Breathing Ventilator Recall Rated as Most Serious
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday classified the recent recall of some of Philips’ ventilators as Class 1, or the most serious type of recall, saying the use of these devices may cause...
View ArticleFDA Says Faulty Philips Device Reports Accelerating as CEO Departs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said reports of faulty Philips ventilators and sleep apnea machines had risen in the past quarter, underlining problems facing the Dutch company, which has...
View ArticleSanitizer Spat Entangles Members of American Dream Mall’s Ghermezian Family
The Ghermezian family is best known for owning some of the world’s biggest shopping complexes, including New Jersey’s American Dream and a stake in Minnesota’s Mall of America. But some family members...
View ArticleFDA Proposes New Limits on Lead in Baby Foods
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced new guidance to reduce exposure to lead in processed baby foods. Though recommended and not required, the new proposed action levels from the...
View ArticlePhilips Slow in Replacing Recalled Sleep Devices, Regulator Says
American consumers may be waiting longer than expected for Royal Philips NV to replace sleep apnea devices that were recalled, the US drugs regulator has warned. The number of replacement and...
View Article‘Stoneos’ Cannabis Cookies Look Too Much Like Oreos, Says FTC
Six companies that make snacks with the active ingredient of cannabis have been sent cease and desist letters because the packaging looks too much like foods that kids love, including “Stoneos” that...
View Article$228M to Some Plaintiffs Who Sued Nevada Bottled Water Company After Liver...
A jury has awarded more than $228 million in damages to several plaintiffs who sued a Las Vegas-based bottled water company after its product was linked to liver illnesses, a newspaper reported. The...
View ArticleOwner of California Biolab Charged With Mislabeling, Lacking Permits
The Chinese owner of an unauthorized central California lab that fueled conspiracy theories about China and biological weapons has been arrested on charges of not obtaining the proper permits to...
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