Medtronic in court
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has ordered the temporary consolidation of multiple class action suits arising from the firm's voluntary field action in February on a defect affecting some of its Marquis implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and cardiac resynchronization therapy devices to aid pretrial proceedings in the U.S. District Court for Minnesota (1"The Gray Sheet" Feb. 21, 2005, p. 24). Medtronic says it "continues to be unaware of any confirmed injury or death related to the battery performance" problem...