Arnold & Itkin Announces Lawsuits Over Defective Pain Pumps

The Houston balloon law close Arnold & Itkin LLP has filed 5 lawsuits adjoin the makers of affliction pumps and accompanying medications based on claims that abounding of the companies’ abnormal accessories are causing irreversible accept accident a allotment of patients.

Currently, the attorneys at Arnold & Itkin are apery 28 humans who accustomed affliction pumps to administer affliction afterward accept surgery. The pumps advance a catheter to bear connected doses of medication anon into the shoulder.

According to the lawsuits, affliction pump manufacturers were denied approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to use the pumps to abate affliction in accept joints, but the companies connected to advance their use in that way. Many above affliction pump users say the companies were behindhand in designing, researching and affairs affliction pumps that they should accept accepted were dangerous. The acknowledged filings cover claims of fraud, aperture of assurance and articles accountability adjoin the actor manufacturers.

“The dangers of these pumps accept been accepted for years, and even the FDA knew it was a bad abstraction to use them in accept joints,” says Arnold & Itkin advocate Mike Pierce, who represents the plaintiffs. “Many of our audience accept undergone assorted surgeries, all aggravating to fix a botheration acquired by these adulterated pumps.”

Plaintiffs adduce that the affliction pumps could cause postarthroscopic glenohumeral chondrolysis (PAGCL), the accelerating abolition of cartilage in the glenohumeral collective abutting the arm to the shoulder. Without the cartilage, basic bullwork calm causing acute pain. PAGCL was aboriginal broadly articular in 2004, with consecutive studies establishing a hotlink amid affliction pumps and PAGCL.

Named as defendants are several affliction pump manufacturers, including Portage, Mich.-based Stryker Corp. (NYSE: SYK), London-based Orthofix Inc. (Nasdaq: OFIX), Lake Forest, Calif.-based I-Flow Inc. (Nasdaq: IFLO), East Aurora, N.Y.-based Moog Inc. (NYSE: MOG.A), San Jose, Calif.-based Sgarlato R.P. Inc., Vista, Calif.-based Breg Inc., Largo, Fla.-based Linvatec Corp., and Vista, Calif.-based DJO Inc. The lawsuits aswell name several arch biologic companies, including London-based AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN), Abbott Park, Ill.-based Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT), Schaumburg, Ill.-based APP Pharmaceuticals and Lake Forest, Ill.-based Hospira Worldwide (NYSE:HSP).

The 5 lawsuits were filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The cases are: Jaysan C. Cofer, et al. v. Stryker Corp., et al., No. BC423120; Denise Fleshman, et al. v. I-Flow Inc., et al., No. BC423117; Louise M. Antil, et al. v. Sgarlatto R.P. Inc., et al., No. BC423121; Brooke M. Lyerly, et al. v. Breg Inc., et al., No. BC423119; and Claudia Timmons, et al. v. Linvatec Corp., et al., No. BC423118.

Arnold & Itkin represents audience in high-stakes cases involving medical and biologic injuries, articles liability, austere claimed abrasion claims, amphibian accidents and business disputes. To apprentice more, appointment the firm’s Web website at http://www.arnolditkin.com.

For added information, acquaintance Alan Bentrup at 800-559-4534 or alan@androvett.com.