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Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed business and financial records from Quest Diagnostics and Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) related to each company’s respective payment arrangements with government and private insurers.
Medical aesthetic device companies Thermage and Syneron Medical have mutually resolved lawsuits involving patent infringement cases that both companies had filed against one another.
Durable medical equipment (DME) provider The SCOOTER Store (TSS) recently filed a lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding CMS payment for power wheelchairs and scooters already delivered to Medicare clients and asked that a separate Department of Justice claim be dismissed.
A Medtronic spokesperson dismissed as “without merit” a recent class action lawsuit launched against the company on behalf of users of several types of its defibrillators manufactured between April 2001 and December 2003.
Federal prosecutors charged a Michigan device manufacturer and its president last week in connection with an alleged conspiracy to disseminate computer software devices without first obtaining FDA approval of the products.
Stent manufacturer Conor Medsystems has filed a new patent lawsuit in Australia against Angiotech, according to company officials, who last week provided an update on Conor’s legal situation.
A lawsuit was filed against Hewlett-Packard (HP) and its spin-off, Agilent Technologies, by a former employee, citing a “scheme to defraud its customers by knowingly selling defective and potentially dangerous medical devices.”
Edwards Lifesciences, a maker of heart valve technologies, and St. Jude Medical settled a 4-year-old patent lawsuit whereupon Edwards will receive a one-time cash payment of $5.5 million.