Hall Render

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

continues crackdown on nursing homes, 2 more cited for poor care and ‘massive fraud’ Wow! Inman College of Nursing FDA clears Collierville startup CircumFix’s medical device for surgery, marketing FTC opposes Novant Health’s $320M hospital deal with Community Health Systems HCA CFO to retire HCA nets $5.2B

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 4, 2023

CPAP II shrugs off plaintiffs’ repeated allegations that defendants “failed to apprise the FDA” of this or that, with the excuse that plaintiffs don’t really “rely” on them. We saw more of the same with the discussion of consumer fraud claims in CPAP II. Plaintiffs Legal Committee , 531 U.S. 341 (2001). 2023 WL 7019287, at *7.

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Drug & Device Law

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

2004); and Hackett v. Texas, unlike most states, enforces a strong statutory presumption that prescription medical product warnings complying with FDA requirements imposed by “pre-market approval or licensing of the product” are adequate as a matter of law. March 4, 2005), rev’d on other grounds , 462 F.3d 3d 364 (5th Cir. & Rem.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 4, 2023

2015), finally gave appellate recognition to the preemption of design defect claims for FDA-approved branded prescription drugs. FDA approved the drug with its particular formulation and the manufacturer could not have changed the formulation on its own. As detailed here , the decision in Yates v. Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharms.,

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 5, 2022

2022), a short decision that came out the right way, but did so based on a problematic statute that creates a rebuttal presumption that warning labels approved by the FDA are adequate as a matter of state law. Stated differently, the rebuttal provision makes allegations and evidence of fraud on the FDA a prerequisite to state-law liability.

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