Properly Trained Medical Expert Lacking At Medtronic Facility

A group of plaintiffs have filed a lawsuit over recalled Medtronic Quick-Set infusion sets for its MiniMed insulin pump claiming that the defects in the insulin delivery systems for diabetics caused users to suffer severe injuries and hospitalizations.  The Medtronic insulin pump infusion set lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Texas on November 30, on behalf of six plaintiffs; five diabetics who used the Medtronic MiniMed insulin pump and one of the plaintiffs’ husbands. All five diabetic plaintiffs allege that they were hospitalized after receiving incorrect insulin dosages from Paradigm Quick-Set infusion sets, designed to work with the MiniMed pumps.

The product liability lawsuit cites an FDA warning letter sent to Medtronic just weeks before the recall which highlighted deficiencies in quality control at its Puerto Rico production facility. According to FDA investigators, the plant had a wide range of problems that included lax testing of products for defects, proper record keeping, as well as not employing a properly trained medical expert for determining the danger of defects.

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