Litigation
Feb. 9, 2010
Pain Device Cases May Be Grouped
Weeks after an Oregon jury handed down a punishing $5.5 million verdict in the first trial over medical devices called "pain pumps," lawyers are pushing to coordinate hundreds of those cases, hoping to force manufacturers to settle or else risk more judgments against them.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Weeks after an Oregon jury handed down a $5.5 million verdict for the plaintiff in the first trial over medical devices called "pain pumps," lawyers are pushing to coordinate hundreds of those cases, hoping to force manufacturers to settle or else risk more judgments against them.
The lawsuits - 200 of them in California alone by lawyers' estimates - claim t...
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