Bone Filler Product Norian XR Linked To Personal Injury
Posted in Personal Injury, Friday, July 3rd, 2009Synthes Inc., a medical device maker located in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and four of its executives were indicted on June 16, 2009 on federal charges they incorrectly promoted a bone filler for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Adminstration.
The wrongful promotion of Norian XR caused the wrongful deaths of three people, and makes Synthes responsible for fines of up to $8 million.
Our personal injury lawyers believe it is important for companies who create treatments and products that cure personal injury should not market its products for uses they were not designed for.
The use of medical products in ways it was not designed can cause lead to personal injury or wrongful death. A medical device used improperly can cause more severe or permanent disabilities like paralysis (i.e. paraplegia & quadriplegia) or wrongful death.
The people charged in the medical malpractice mistake are Michael B. Huggins, president of the Synthes spinal division, Thomas E. Higgins, senior vice president for global strategy, Richard E. Bohner, vice president for operations and John J. Walsh, a regulatory affairs executive.
Federal prosecutors charged Synthes and Norian Corporation with running an unauthorized trial of the bone filler in spinal procedures known as vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty. The wrongful death of three people were linked to those procedures, but they cannot prove the Synthes product caused the wrongful deaths.
The four executives were charged with criminal misdemeanors involving the shipment of unapproved medical devices. No punishment can replace the three lives that were lost because of a medical mistake that could have been easily avoided.
Our personal injury attorneys in San Diego are disappointed to find out doctors are improperly using medical devices because the company producing those devices were marketed improperly.
That irresponsibility caused the wrongful deaths of three people. Hopefully, these and other wrongful deaths will make companies think twice before repeating the same mistake.
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