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Shoulder Pain Pump Lawsuits
The use of intra-articular pumps, also known as pain pumps or pain balls, to deliver medication to the shoulder following arthroscopic shoulder surgery has been linked to the development of a painful and debilitating condition which causes the loss of cartilage in the shoulder. The condition, known as Postarthroscopic Glenohumeral Chondrolysis or PAGCL, has [...]
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I-Flow On-Q Pain Pump Lawsuits Spike in July 2009
The number of new shoulder pain pump lawsuits filed against I-Flow Corp, makers of the On-Q PainBuster, surged last month, as many plaintiffs filed claims prior to the two year anniversary of the publication of a study linking use of the pain pumps to a painful and debilitating loss of cartilage, known as shoulder chondrolysis. [...]
I-Flow Corp. Faces 69 Pain Pump Chondrolysis Lawsuits
According to a first quarter earnings report filed by I-Flow Corp., the medical device manufacturer is named as a defendant in approximately 69 shoulder pain pump lawsuits filed by individuals who allege that they developed chondrolysis after arthroscopic surgery.
Shoulder Chondrolysis Trial to Begin July 2009 in Breg Pain Pump Lawsuit
It appears that the first trial of a pain pump lawsuit, involving the development of shoulder chondrolysis after arthroscopic surgery, will begin this summer in Key West, Florida. According to court records, the plaintiff, Douglas Kilpatrick, and the device manufacturer, Breg, Inc., failed to reach a settlement during a court ordered mediation earlier this [...]
Pain Pump Lawsuits Continue to be filed over Shoulder Chondrolysis
Individuals who have developed shoulder chondrolysis after arthroscopic surgery continue to file pain pump lawsuits against the manufacturers of the infusion pumps used to deliver medication after surgery. The lawsuits claim that the intra-articular use of the pain pumps causes permanent shoulder cartilage damage.
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