National Law Firm Representing Recipients of Recalled Guidant Defibrillators Assures Prescribing Doctors They Will Not Be Sued
Doctors assured they will not be sued by leading national law firm for clients' injuries due to recalled defective Guidant defibrillators.
(PRWEB) July 7, 2005 -- The Johnson Law Firm, {http://nationwidejustice.com/defib_recall} which represents
clients from around the world with recalled Guidant defibrillators, today
assured doctors and several cardiology practice groups that they will not be
sued by the firm for the injuries their patients may have suffered due to the
defective Guidant defibrillators.
"We will not sue our clients' doctors"
stated firm founder Steven Johnson, “It is a common practice by many lawyers to
sue the doctors in these cases just because they may have insurance policies.
The Johnson Law Firm will not sue the doctors in these cases because we believe
the doctors are blameless. No doctor would have knowingly installed a defective
defibrillator. Only Guidant is responsible for the damages in these cases and we
will hold them accountable exclusively for 100% our clients damages. "
Guidant has recalled nearly 50,000 of its cardiac defibrillators because
of defects that may cause the product to short-circuit thereby leading to
serious injury and death.
On July 2, 2005 New York Times writer Barry
Meier wrote, “Guidant did not tell doctors for years that these units had
repeatedly short-circuited and kept selling potentially flawed units out of
inventory after it had started selling an improved version.”
It has been
reported that approximately 38,000 Guidant defibrillators have been implanted in
patients in the United States. The following is a list of the defective Guidant
implant models:
* Prizm 2 DR
* Contak Renewal
* Contak Renewal 2
*
Ventak Prizm AVT
* Vitality AVT
* Renewal 3 AVT
* Renewal 4 AVT
ICDs
Patients implanted with a Guidant defibrillator or
pacemaker
should immediately contact The Johnson Law Firm for a free claim evaluation at
toll free
1-866-374-0338 or at http://nationwidejustice.com/defib_recall/
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/7/prweb258544.htm