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A Thorny PMA Preemption Decision from Rhode Island

Drug & Device Law

It involves allegations against the manufacturer and distributor of surgical clips used in tubal ligation surgery—Class III Pre-Market Approved (“PMA”) medical devices. Plaintiff had surgery in 2014 in which the clips were used. 14, 2024). Shortly thereafter she began experiencing several adverse symptoms, including pain.

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Dealing with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Non-Decision on Standards Compliance Evidence

Drug & Device Law

We have discussed how exclusion of FDA compliance in pelvic mesh cases, based on a false equivalence between preemption and evidentiary admissibility, has hampered the defense in that litigation. A plaintiff’s pursuit of such theories thus should allow admission of standards compliance evidence. Coffing Hoist Division , 528 A.2d