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DEFECTIVE MEDICAL PRODUCTS & DEVICES

Defective Medical Products & Devices


Cancer Misdiagnosis
Lymphoma Misdiagnosis
Fatal Injury Cases and Inquests
DePuy Hip Implant Recall
Defective Medical Products & Devices
Metal on Metal Hip Implants Alert
Implanon Contraceptive Failure
Maternal Birth Injuries
From contaminated  blood products to defective artificial hip implants, year after year the danger posed by defective medical products is made clear by the increasing number of patients who suffer adverse outcomes in medical care and our medical negligence solicitors are are being contacted about more and more cases.

Overall, few areas of human endeavour are more carefully regulated and few categories of product are manufactured under closer scrutiny than in the biomedical and health sciences industry but with many tens of thousands of products, ranging from vascular stents to radioactive isotopes, aspirin pills to complex immunosuppressant pharmaceuticals, there is still great scope for error and when those errors occur, resulting in defective medical products with consequences for patients that can be very serious and for some, fatal.

Defective medical products cases are different from the typical clinical negligence case where one is criticising the quality of care that a patient has received in direct human terms. A Defective Product case is usually not taken against a hospital authority or a doctor but rather against the distributor or manufacturer of a product used in the treatment of a patient.
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The law in this area is governed by the Liability for Defective Products Act 1991.
 In such cases, while one may not need to establish a preliminary opinion from a medical expert that there has been a lapse in the expected standard of care, it will often be necessary to get engineering or other scientific evidence and expert opinions to identify a defect in the design or manufacture of a product and be able to show that the defect caused the harm or injury complained of to the patient. 

Defective products cases tend to occur in groups or batches because when something goes wrong in the design or manufacture of medical products, many people will be affected at once. In Ireland, our legal system does not provide for  “class actions” where groups of plaintiffs band together to bring a lawsuit. Such group actions are common in the USA, however in Ireland, plaintiff’s tend to bring separate claims while overall sharing in the pool of knowledge gathered within specific law firms on a particular issue.
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Medical negligence solicitors, such as the ones at Cian O'Carroll Solicitors acts for numerous patients affected by a particular defective product such as in the well known DePuy ASR and other metal-on-metal artificial hip recalls, the cost of establishing the scientific evidence is to some extent shared among many individuals. Accordingly those affected can have the security of knowing that we have established the best evidence to prove their case while the cost of the work does not become too great a burden for them.  This is an important consideration when deciding on the legal practice to represent you in complex product liability litigation but the most important consideration will always be the skill and experience that the chosen law firm brings to your case. ​
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Indaville, Boherclogh, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, E25 V448
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