Medical devices and medical appliances can be as simple as a tongue depressor or as complex as a pacemaker.  The sheer variety of products that compose the medical device category is circumscribed by the Food and Drug Administration’s definition for medical devices:

• "an instrument, apparatus,implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article, including a component part, or accessory which is:
  
• recognized in the official National Formulary, or the United States Pharmacopoeia, or any supplement to them,
• intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals, or
• intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals, and which does not achieve any of its primary intended purposes through chemical action within or on the body of man or other animals and which is not dependent upon being metabolized for the achievement of any of its primary intended purposes."

Medical Appliance and Medical Device Cases are Complex and Require Experienced Medical Malpractice Lawyers

Lawsuits focused on defective medical devices or appliances are products liability cases.  Depending on the circumstances, a number of parties can be found liable, including the appliance or device manufacturer, seller and designer.

Medical appliance defects and medical device defects can come about from a number of different causes, some which may not be immediately apparent, but which, nonetheless, are the result of negligence on the part of the manufacturer or a party that had responsibility for its safety.  Each particular defect requires experienced and knowledgeable attorneys to uncover their source, which could include flaws in the design, construction with inferior materials or a failure to properly warn or instruct the user.

The defective medical appliance attorneys and defective medical device lawyers at Clifford Law Offices have the experience necessary to assist in claims focusing on all types of device or appliance.

Clifford Law Offices, Experienced Chicago Defective Medical Appliance Lawyers and Defective Medical Device Attorneys

Clifford Law Offices represented several recipients of the recalled Sulzer hip devices who had to undergo painful revision surgery as a result of defective devices.  These cases, which were part of a Multi-District Litigation, resulting in settlements nearing a combined one billion dollars.

Robert A. Clifford and Timothy S. Tomasik reached a $5,000,000 Partial Settlement when a neurosurgeon using spine instruments during surgery caused permanent incontinence in a 30 year-old-woman due in part to manufacturer failing to advise surgeon about the appropriate imaging required for the proper use of the instruments.