A 70-year-old man may proceed with a lawsuit claiming that Medtronic’s SynchroMed II infusion pump is defective and that the company was negligent in manufacturing it.
A U.S. District Court judge in West Virginia last week denied Medtronic’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought by John David Brumfield, who claims that the pump in the SynchroMed II device he had implanted in 2012 to treat back pain stopped delivering the pain medication hydromorphone in 2018.
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