Medtronic Agrees To Pay $268 Million To Settle Personal Injury Recall Lawsuit Claims Against Medtronic Over Recalled Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Leads.
A settlement has been reached in a mass tort personal injury recall lawsuit against Medtronic, Inc. (“Medtronic” or “Defendant”), alleging among other things that the recalled Medtronic Sprint Fidelis leads (i.e., wires or cables used to connect hearts to implantable defibrillators that provide shocks to the heart when needed to try to stop potentially deadly rhythm disruptions) were defective since they were fracture-prone and could crack, according to a Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Leads personal injury recall lawsuit settlement news report.
There are reportedly an estimated 8,100 Sprint Fidelis Leads personal injury recall cases filed or served against Medtronic that may be eligible to participate in the Medtronic Sprint Fidelis Leads settlement.
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what BULLSHIT !!!!!!!!!! Where is all the money. 210 million settlement……….. do the math people if theres 14100 claimants and
7k had issues fractures,caps,complications death etc, if all 7k got 35k each that would be 24.5 million paid out…………..I repeat where is the money……..In the pockets off all lawyers judges etc, what a scam they pulled, you have to hand it to them. What slimes. even the people in tier 3 got dog meat with multiple fractures and complications, poor people who passed away, I hope they got multiple millions cause if one does the math, it doesnt make sense.
OK you all; while I cannot say you would be ‘better off’ today had you read and personally vetted my post, the first on this site, from November 2010, I can say two things: you would be no ‘worse off’ and you would have had a year in which to seek some REAL legal help. This whole outcome was absolutely certain and it was said so in the PDF document published on the federal cpurt “gov” website last October. I sincerely do wish the best for you all, yes even you Plavixman, but I cannot help but be reminded at this time, of something my dad used to say to me while bouncing me on his knee: “son (he used to call me that) son, remember one thing in life and ye shall prosper and be happy, NEVER TRUST A NAKED BUS DRIVER”. Gentlemen and Patricia the next time you ‘get on a bus’ or an MDL look to see who is driving for it is extremely important to your health and wealth.. Please pardon any typos it is the thought that counts.
Jerry, I’m sorry but I’ve been too busy to grab the ol yardstick n give you a good rap on the knuckles for your faux pax math calculation. Spouse we could blame it on the limits inhierent in eight digit calculators, but back in the day we used toes n fingers and came out ok. Now, where was I ? Oh ya, seven thousand times thirtyfive thousand is 245 not 24.5 million. This whole thing would’nt exist were it not for letting ‘teachers’ convince (some of) us that minus times minus is plus. Then when the 1040’s started with the “Marking yes (on the presidential election campain fund thingy) will not increase your tax and marking no will not increase your refund” excreatment we lost all touch with reality. I want to know, why, if the initial “OFFER” was 268 million and 8100 ‘claimants’ were “eligable” (33,086 average) in the world would the ADDITION of six thousand more victims cause a REDUCTION of $48million from the gross payout ? The payout, now , future, and contingency related SHOULD BE $466.5million PLUS interest or inflation from October 2010. Run that one up your flagpole Jerry and Plavi, it’s your job to poohpooh my ‘alegation’,byebye
Plavisman – I did not get shock. That would fall under the Extraordinary Injury Fund (EIF). If you were shock, had infection, economic loss psychological claim, wrongful death or other physical injury that would fit that category EIF).
Not only did these lawyers get A huge percentage of the settlement now I have to give them 1/3 rd more from my award. that is not fair, any thoughts, talk about double dipping ?
Jerry, the amount the attornys get is strictly their 30-40% off the top, then comes the medical bills that insurance paid and the $400-800 for insurance subrogation, and then here comes us!
We do get the tail end, but maybe there will be a G-d who will answer some last minute prayers. I had honestly hoped it would pull me out of debt enough to survive my last years comfortably. We just have to wait and see.
Did anyone notice how to the right of this blog, there is a time line of posts between Cool, Junk, and Plavix???? Wonder if they are keeping tally on your posts??
Plavisman – From my understanding the 40 and 15 percent both would come off the top of the CRC allocated amount, which would be the reduced amount. I asked my attorney if he would accept 25%, but never go a respond. Must give an answer by Dec 16th.
Junk, you are absolutely right! The attorney fees, the fee for dealing with the insurance companies, and the amount insurance can claim (which was to be negotiated and much less than originally thought!) all come off the top! Definitely! How do you think I cam out of a lawsuit citing injury/damages for falling and having a broken arm/wrist with protruding bone, three surgeries, loss of consortium, loss of future wages (had to drop from RN program just a semester of graduating from college due to not being able to perform simple nursing care involving moving and lifting, etc) and pain and suffering… ended up with a measly $1200 bux in my pocket after attorney, costs, and medical bills were paid!!! SUCKS TO THIS DAY WHEN I THINK OF IT! And no, it was not my current attorney! Lesson learned, stick to a performing attorney with proven track record than going with an attorney suggested by a friend. Some friend!
Anyway, this will settle soon with us getting however much we are deemed to get. I heard or saw something referring to only about 8-9K people being in on this as some had dropped out. Any idea on that? I don’t post much as I have been under the weather.
Patrica – Your message to Jerry. There is no time line of posts between Cool, Plavix and I. I am retired with nothing else to do, but to keep up with everybody post. So please stop that nonsense of keeping tally. That how shit get started. Keep it real. I want the best for all and this tally crap is for the birds. Sorry to go off on a tandrum, but that is pure nonesense.
WHOA!!! WHOA!!! HOLD YER HORSES, JUNKYARDDOG! I am not counting and tallying squat doodly! If you read my message correctly, you will see that I indicated that to the left of the messages, there is a run of names with link to their recent posts, and that is all I said. I am retired/disabled and I don’t have time to tally nada!
Dang, I can barely tally anything with the attention deficit span I have had for couple of days because I feel like squat doodley!
So please, no snapping unless you have a right to snap!
Meant no harm, but wondered why they are on the left-most column (start from top to see) as such….
Junk, is the 15% of which you speak, the subrogation amount to the insurance company?
Scar, according to my attorney, the 15% if the amount that has been subrogated by the panel to whom we are paying the $400-800 per person. Does it seem clearer now?
Hey all, just an update-I got my letter today regarding what category I fall into, also gives amount with an option to appeal which will delay the checks to Spring, if no appeal then check comes in January.
Update, got letter today with $$ amount!!
Thanks Patricia! So we are paying 15% to subrogate what the insurance paid and we are paying $400-$800 to the person who figured out what amount is owed?
Now that we have the entire day to digest this thing let me bring a few things out. 1. Someone said where is the rest of the money, lets not forget that is a certain amount set aside for people who have problems over the next 6(7 originally) years. I do not know how much this is, but a considerable amount I am sure. 2. We took what some of the write up in papers as the gospel. It wasn’t. I went back and looked at all my papers today. It said 15000 people, it said 268m. It said tier ll 12000-35000 dollars. It said we would have to pay Insurance back. I don’t know what your lawyers told you, but mine spelled it out very well. Its hard for me to argue with the outcome. We just all hope it would be better. Good luck, hope I get my letter by Wednesday. It was mailed Friday from Minneapolis and I am in Atlanta. But then again, they slowed the mail down today.
Just one more thing, we haven’t even considered the people who lost loved ones to this monster. We are worried about what we are getting and these people will not get anything. Their families might, but they won’t ever know. We could be there you know. JUST THINKING!
Hey Plavi, I just HAVE TO respond to this one; first off you are so right about our collective abilities to consider only ourselves, but thinking those thoughts veered off into ‘the weeds’ and I realized that what you are alluding to is that WE are “the lucky ones”. Well sir sticking words in your and a foot in my mouth I have to ask you : “On what, Rusty the bailiff, parallel universe, is one NOT killed by a defective product considered LUCKY ?”
The people that did die certainty were not lucky. So the fact that you did not die on the operation table could be considered lucky. You see, I had a blood clot during my new lead. If this had went into my heart i would have died. I was lucky in the fact it went out of my heart and into my left arm. I spent 5 days in the hospital making sure that they dissolved it and that My blood got thin enough so it couldn’t do anymore damage.
I had one in my heart after the first medicated stents were placed in 2005 and today suffer from severe loss of stamina. I look in good health but cannot walk up 10 stairs. So I can appreciate not dying. They said because I smoked at the time, it was my fault. How could I prove them wrong. Attorneys dropped the case. So tell me about getting screwed. Naw, I have been there before.
can someone PLEASE CLARIFY the lawyer fees, I know pat did but I am still confused. The lawyers got roughly 30 to 50 percent off the top for there fees. My lawyer is saying I have to pay another 30 percent off my award. so thats double dipping.
Is anyone else paying twice also………thanks for any clarity
Btw, If anyone doesnt think these lawyers made out like bandits, you must be on planet x. In the future if these claimants have issues, they will get less and less as the 6 yrs go by. life of unit etc etc. The money held over for this was excessive. 220 million at 14,100 claimants
7k had issues at 35 k per 7k woulda been 24.5 million. lawyers at 30 percent got 66 million minus 20 million for judges admin costs etc.25 million for death complications etc , have over 80 million left over for whatvere.MY point is they coulda did the 35k plus for us and its not justified. they shafted everyone.granted every yr we will get a check for 6 yrs probably but big deal. we shoulda got what was coming to us with the original forecast plus the yearly amounts not utilized also.
should I appeal or should I not appeal
that is the Question???
I just spoke with the lead atty handling the cases. replied to me that the lawyers did not get anything from the settlement untill we agree with our awards then they get the percentage we agreed to when we hired them. other than the judge and ademin fees etc thats the only money that was allocated. our lawyers then would give a percentage from our awards to the lead atty’s etc out of there end…………..SO IT GETS EVEN BETTER……………….WHERE DID ALL THE MONEY GO. CANT WAIT TILL I GET A BREADOWN SHEET.
Jerry, I think your major discrepancy may stem from miscalculating the amount of money that would come from multiplying 35k x 7k. That would total up to $245,000,000 and not $24,500,000. A huge difference!
Jerry, You need to go back to 7th grade and take a math class. 7000 people times 35k is 245,000,000.00 So you see your math doesn’t work out. Sorry to correct you but you should redo your figures.
Hey Plavi, just had to drop you a thank you note for your kind words on the Legal Reader site. Back at you, my man, for you have spent a ton of your time bathing the unwashed masses at this and lord knows how many other sites. And while I may ignore every point you try to convey, I nonetheless cannot ignore your well intentioned efforts. Yes, it will take a while to get my comeupance through the federal court system but the beauty of it is that in being an old curmuudgen I am too damned stubborn to die until compensated. Wow, only three misspelled words in this rant. Anyway Plavi I wish you nothing but the best in health wealth and spirit over however much time you remain above room temperature.
Wonder what the tier I people got.Couldn’t have been much. I really would like to know how of them they were.
tier 1 got a mesely 1k comedy central. out of 14 k claimants half had issues the other 7k are in the registartion phase which was 1k
I meant to say “how many of them there were”
7000 claimants get 1000 a piece. thats 700 k. if 7000 claimants get 5 k a piece, thats 3.5 million. if 7000 claimants got 10 k a piece thats 7 million. if 7000 claminats get 20 k a piece thats 14 million. if 7000 claimants get 30k a piece thats 21 million. pls I am going nutty with the math but I think you are wrong with the figure of 245 million at 35k.
if I am wrong then the figures dispersed are right I would think.
Lol! Jerry, use a calculator to derive at your figures. Mental math is not your strong suit, neither is it mine, thus I use a calculator.
Jerry, Jerry, Jerry; here is something to take your mind off the serious situation at hand : three college students are on a “road trip” and decide to spend the night in a one star motel. At the front desk the deskclerk informs them that the room is $30 for the night, so they each kick in $10, go to the room and are fighting over control of the tv remote, when ten mintues later the desj=k clerk shows up at the door and sheepishly tells them he forgot it was Tuesday, and on Tuesday the room only costs $25 so they have $5 coming back. For some reason, he shows up with five ones, and so the brains of the bunch, when handed said singles tells the clerk that since he was so honest, he could keep two of the dollars. He handed each of his amigos a buck and stuffed the other in his pocket. Now then, each of the guys was ‘out’ ten minus one or nine dollars for the room. So the 3 guys times $9 makes $27. Then add the two bucks to the clerk and you get a total of, WHATS THIS $29. Where did the other dollar go ?
Love this analogy! But it really got me more confoozed ‘n befuddled! We definitely need words of encouragement and uplifting meaning… Tired of doom and gloom, I g
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Got a call today from lawer.My mother got shocked 6 time,and took a long time to recover….thay say that we where supose to get a check on monday….Needleess to say, its only 24,000.But tw week ago he told us to exspect no less then 120,000..So where the heck is the rest…..?
Well, I guess its time for me to rant and rave. This is a travesty not only to me but to all those whose suffered thur this entire mess. Just got off the phone today with attorneys, after I got my award letter. I will tell you one thing, the people that are not part of this blog or another one is in for a big shock come Jan. The amount doesn’t matter, but here are the percentages. 1. Judge Rosenbaum will hold back 40% up front for any medicaid, medicare or Insurance liens, this will be held until such time that they are all taken care of. Now he also said that the most it would be is 20%, so I don’t understand the 40%.
2. The attorney will take their fees off, whatever that is, but somewhere between 30-40percent. Attorney expenses will be deducted.
3. So if you were awarded 20,000 dollars, the amount you will recieve in January could be as low as 3-4thousand dollars.
4. You will have to wait until Judge Rosenbaum finishes with the Insurance deal before you get any more money. That will be sometime next year.
THIS IS OUR GREAT LEGAL SYSTEM AT WORK AT ITS BEST. THIS IS HOW THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE WORKING MAN(OR USE TO BE) CAN NEVER GET AHEAD.
Best of luck to all of you. I know this is not what we all thought last October when we signed up. But then, that what they wanted us to think.
what a joke supposedly I heard if you agree with your award you will get your money before the end of the year. Another words
submit it by dec 12th give them 10 days to look for liens etc, then check gets dispersed before new year……….
If this is true, I think we have been royally screwed more than I thought, a real mass class freaking! I will never be a part of a class action case again. It is not worth the aggravation just to enrich the attorneys through our pain and suffering, and only getting a pittance for our troubles. Never again!
wish someone woulda corrected my math mths ago and i would not be so disappointed with the settlement. what can we do, it is what it is. to everyone that corresponded on the board these past mths may you have a good holiday as far as the money goes, if i was in a better place in life I would donate it to charity and help others. God Bless everyone
Jerry, you must be using an adding machine that can’t go to 245 million. You know those old things can’t keep up with today’s modern equipment. I suggest you go to wally world and spend about 25 bucks and get a CALCULATOR that will go to about a billion. Now if you want to keep up with the National Debt, then get one that goes to at least 100 trillion.
Dagnabit Plavi, QUIT WHILE YOU ARE AHEAD. I am refering to your parting shot to MIKE at Legal Reader. Since you won’t be back there I am commenting on it here ; the next time you really want to use your hands in ungentlemanly ways, consider the words of that Gasbag of a Governor of California, NO not caleefornia, I speak of Jerry Brown. He used to wear a sweat shirt on appropriate occasions such as buget battles with the legislature which said the following;(in latin) “illigentum non carborundum” and that my man in english is ‘DONT LET THE BASTARDS GRIND YOU DOWN’. Thought you might want to use that one somre timre. Gotta go, lisinoprils acallin.
I’ll keep that one in my bag of tricks. But I hate people that kick when one is down. As Walter Brenner use to say “DAG NIB-IT” Leave that feller alone. All is well and good now I can move full time to my quest helping to bring HORSE RACING TO GA. We are really moving forward with that and hopefully the legislatures will let us vote on it next Nov. If you are on Facebook, join me at “friends of Georgia horse racing” Good Luck
Still have not even received any award letter in the mail or nothing about any of this.
got a call today,,,im in Kansas City…..
Terri you are not alone! My law firm has to be the worst ever. After I hired them I received the initial letter to get me to join the settlement and then one to agree to another attorney office in MPLS to speed things up but that I wouldnt have to pay any more for them. Since then I have received nothing and when I call they will answer questions but don’t give me any information for the amount of money they will receive from me. Thank God for the blog, or I would completely be in the dark. There is a chance that if part of my injury isn’t covered I will have to appeal, but I DON”T want my current law firm representing me. I’m sure I have to use them but I don’t want to.
Scar, I had the same thing to happen to me. I hired a firm out of Houston to take care of this case. After about a year, they wanted to transfer it to a group in Minneapolis. That has worked out good for me. But ALL my contact for the last 2years has been with the firm out of Minneapolis. I have not spoken to anyone is Houston since. Sounds like in your case, someone else is doing the work for a fee, but your original firm wants you to go thru them. Thats not the way it should have been. Just a thought.
So today “December seventh, a date which will live in infamy” I am trying to watch the monotony of seeing the Pearl Harbor festivities on the ‘ol grey tube. However there is a loud clicking noise which nearly drowns out the audio, and it takes me several minutes to realize what I am hearing is the noise from several thousand light bulbs going on across America as the burned again victims of Medtronic Inc, awaken to the fact that they have been led down that well worn primrose path frequented by high priced shysters and rubes who listen to them. Please guys, stop clicking those damned bulbs and do what you should have done months ago. E mail Don Alexander, remember the “FOOL” persuing the RICO suit against Medtronic, the dishonorable judges Kyle and Rosenbloom, the doctors selling their souls for another polo pony payment, and oh yes, the shysters with the well worn shoes.
Just got off the phone with my attorney. Things are going from bad to worse. They just informed me that I am in tier one instead of tier two as I had thought, even though I had the defibrillator and a wire replaced. The irony of the situation is that the wire removed was not the recalled wire, but the wire that replaced it was the recalled one. Why would this be done if there were known problems with the wire. I have been walking around for four years now with a recalled wire, feeling confident that the bad one was replaced. They had to know this, yet they neglected or did not want to tell me. If they had told me, I would not be as dissappointed. Here I am waiting for a somewhat significant lump sum of money to catch up on some bills, but unfortunately that’s not going to happen. Perhaps I have a future as a greeter at Walmart. Lol! Merry Xmas everyone.
Insane. They offered me 1,000.00 for my settlement. Do they not realize the Mental Anguish and Humiliation they have created. I wake up every morning wondering if today is my day. They are the vomit of the Human Race. To do this and knowingly put these defective pieces of junk into innocent people who came begging for help like I did. I want justice I want them in JAIL where they belong! I would be happy to forfiet my settlement to see them all go to Jail! It isn’t over they can keep the money! I don’t have much time left but I will hunt them down and make them beg for their pithetic lives. It ain’t over, not by a long shot!!!!
Oh by the way Obama is a joke but GW Bush and Daniel York are the Vomit of the human race and their day will come as well!
KILL THEM ALL AND WE WILL LET GOD SORT IT OUT!
Plavixman, I sent you a post on your facebook! Also my law firm is out of Ft Worth! After I got out of the hospital I went on line to find a law firm and I found 2. One accepted my case and one did not. I have never had luck with lawyers, and to think I almost became one!!
I just recieved my grandmothers award letter and Im truely sickenend by what I saw. I dont know about anyone else but Im not ok with a thousand dollars each for her two claims. Maybe the last one because it didnt do aymore harm to her but the first claim no way shes registration payment.Im not signing this crap.Is anyone else just gonna take it?
We have yet to receive anything. No letters or emails, nothing. If the average settlement amount is probably around 1000.00 where the hell did all the rest of the money go to?
14,000 claimants probably 3/4 at 1000.00 so wheres the rest of the money going to?
Guess what … No letter from my attorney yet, either! Wonder why… They let me know that I had to fill out the form re: theinsurance, which had to be notarized. But no award letter yet! Guess I will call my attorney tomorrow after my aide checks the mail…
I have been silent until the award letters went out….I’m 38yrs old and in the tier 3 catagory….i was awarded 29k ….here is my question after all the lawyers judges and assorted fees i will get maybe 2k …am i taxed at the 29k level or 2k level? Hell if its 29k i get nothing right great glad to know medtronic is going strong. Wish I never got the damn thing. Medtronic is the face of greed and corruption. How about an occupy medtronic movement.
MDSC, I agree with you. We should not just passively accept this. One thousand dollars for what we went through, not to mention the years that we waited patiently, and completing all the necessary paperwork for the attorneys to process our case. That is an insult! I am at the point, I would rather not sign the papers, and miss out on that measly thousand dollars just to keep them from benefiting from my pain and suffering.
MDSC! What a concept!! Seriously!! I cannot describe the look on my fiance, Jerry’s face when he read HIS “award” letter from his so called “ATTORNEY”….WOW. How did the the original tier catagories go from what they WERE to what they ARE anyway?? ANYONE?? We weren’t notified of any changes to the 3 tier original settlement agreement and it seems that by agreeing to the ‘allocation of the settlement funds’ as described in the MSA we were actually just agreeing to be insulted and told how much ours or a loved one’s LIFE is WORTH to Medtronic? I have learned far more than I can stomach at this site but commend you ALL for taking what Medtronic has dealt you!! As you said MDSC, “TAKE THAT” just DOESN’T cut it!! Jerry says forget about it – I can’t – I was holding ON to him when he was ‘receiving’ his numerous shocks due to the recalled leads malfunctioning!! I FELT THEM! For those of you who were shocked – that isn’t something you can just forget! SO, WHAT NOW?
If zero is the end result why remain silent lets shame medtronic…lets tell this story in every media outlet out there…medtronic has got to pay the only ones to get a dime from these proceedings were not ever affeced to begin with. Greedy corporations that make billions every year preying on the sick need to be stopped. the only thing that will make any of this worth the pain and suffering we went through is to shie a light on this situation we have nothing to loose. Make medtronic do the right thing and quit hiding be hind lawyers. Its not slander if we simply tell the truth. Is anyone of you hearing what im saying? We can roll over and let happen again or we can try to change the status quo. I am pretty mad but its not at just the money its the whole “take that” railroad we have been on.
Hey MDSC, my situation is a cake walk compared to yours, and your “is anyone listening?” question goes to the fundemental problem of ‘class action’ suits. Each of us is but a very small part of a very big group of victims. Now compare that to any attorney in THIS matter. While I do not have the numbers I would guess off-hand that there are no more than a hundred or so shysters feeding at the pig trough. That would mean, on average ‘they’ would (gotta laugh here) represent har-har call it 150 real people each. with their ‘take’ about 45% of the $15k average ($220m divided by 14100 souls) , they would have about WOW a cool one million bucks coming. Who is gonna bitch about that ? And that is precisely why they had that bullshit ‘confidentiality’ requirement in the initial “award” packages, and that is exactly why I made THE FIRST post on this site thirteen (13) months ago, to inform anyone who would listen just what this steaming pile of excrement was all about. I got dissed repeatedly for same and didn’t post often after that, but when I did my song was the same; “you will be sorry/ read the damned agreement BEFORE signing it”. That no one now listens is because they are too embarased to admit THEY screwed THEMSELVES out of what rightfully WAS theirs. Go back on this site and read my post, and google in the 2007 medtronic settlement for the earlier defibrillators wherein each victim on average received $42,500. If paid out this time it would total PENNIES less than $600million. THAT is what Medtronic SHOULD pay its victims AND an aditional $300million to cover the shysters and their fellow travelers.
David, You are right about a lot of what you say, but one part you leave out of your overall message. WHEN THE FIRST SETTLEMENT WAS DONE THEIR WAS NO “Regiel vs Medtronic” So that would make a HUGE difference. Just saying!
we can state anything we want to, as long as it is stated as our opions
and the rant continues….Got shocked 23 times in the first hour had two surguries lost a job i had for over 8 years and i constantly wonder what if this one breaks…never really thought about death the way i did that night, thought that was it this was the way i was going out…never got to tell my story to a jury or judge or medtronic maybe its our stories that will do some good if told to the right people
MDSC, what little pittance we get there should not be any taxes. What I have read is that a settlement like this carries not Federal Income Tax. The lawyers will pay on their part and all the other scam artist the same. Sorry for the place your in, we are all in the same circumstances.
This settlement is tax free! Sounds like that’s the only good thing about it. If you got 29k after being shocked 23 times and had 2 surgeries, that’s very sad!! Who is receiving all the money! They need to send us a payout letter on how the Judge and attornies were paid. Like I said, I have yet to receive anything on this. Not even a subrogation form to sign for my insurance.
Thanx plavix ….great i may get a thousand bucks ….hows that for optimism? lol but seriously thanks for keeping us in the loop..more than our lawyers ever did
I called the law firm I signed with and was told they have no amounts yet and won’t until first quarter next year. Are the letters you are getting coming from the court or your lawyers???? I’m tired of being in the dark.
Also opted out of the insurance part, no liens and my insurance not on the list I was given so I will deal myself.
Shocked over 30 times and blacked out in the ambulance. Several weeks later the device and lead removed and replaced with a different brand. I assume I will be in tier three.
Don’t understand why some already have reward letter and my lawyers know nothing????
Ha, ha, don’t assume anything. I assumed I was in tier two, but come to find out, I was assigned to tier one. To tell you the truth I did not know there was a class action case going on until these attorneys contacted me. All I know is that I had a pacemaker/defibrillator implanted at Ohio State University Hospital in Feb. 1999. It functioned well until the early spring of 2006 when the battery went down. I had it replaced then at a Canton,Ohio hospital, and by late summer I got an alarm going off from the device. I thought maybe the battery was prematurly failing, but it turned out to be a broken wire. My E.P in Canton, Ohio decided he did not want to touch it because he was not experienced with removing broken wires. I was transported to the Cleveland Clinic where the wire was extracted, and a new Pacemaker and wire were put in. When the pacemaker was replaced the first time in Canton, I am not sure if a new wire was put in or not, but when the attorneys contacted me, I assumed that he had information that the fractured wire was one of the recalled Medtronic wires. Ironically, they are now telling me that the recalled wire was implanted at the Cleveland Clinic where I went after a device went bad after a few months. But I am going to the hospital in Canton to get my records for when the device was replaced in spring of 2006. I want to see for myself. At any rate, these attorneys are a bunch of crooks.
For Medtronic settlement amount no facts on amounts to each case has been set yet. We might get enough cash to purchase 1 gallon of milk after all fee’s are paid with small chance of more depending on tier. I’m happy I’m still alive due to the fact I have 71% of heart dead but still work around home and will not sit on my butt and eat to much and get fat and dye.Please Quit making up stories that are not true like money you will get or have received. God say’s be honest and greediness is a sin. GOD BLESS and stop complaining. this is for lucky ones that are still kicking
For all that do not have award letter yet. CALL YOUR ATTORNEY AND DEMAND TO KNOW WHERE IT IS. You only have until Dec. 13 to submit back or your stuck with whatever they say. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.. DO IT NOW!!!!!! If you think I don’t know what I am talking about, don’t do it. BUT YOU WERE WARNED!
Hi Dennis I dont know about anyone else but yes I did already recieve my grandmothers award amount and papers.They also classified her as tier 1 and said she gets 1000.00. Im objecting to this because what I found since yesterday is that what my attorneys submitted on her behalf was not the whole story.
Hello Lance. God Bless you for being honest. I’ll pray its works out better you both My award letter has not arrived yet but I hope it will be enough to pay some of Obama’s higher taxes or find a good way to cheat and not get caught . Good Luck
do anyone have Seaecy Denney, Scarola Barnhart & Shipley repersenting you.
Anyone else on this blog have Williams, Kherkher of Houston and
have you heard anything??
The letters are out mr knott….I am appealing the award figure its worth the risk…also i contacted cnn hoping they are willing to do something with the story….maybe even if we get screwed we can get rid of that preemption law for the next poor schlub that gets injured…still cant wrap my mind around how someone gets millions for spilling hot coffee on themselves….and we get a few hundred for dying nearly dying or potentialy dying….thanks mcdonalds for selling hot coffee…damn you medtronic for selling the heart killing devices you sell. does anyone get what i am saying…lol oh dont assume your teir either nothing else about this suit has been on the level. We really need to get that stupid law repealed before more folks get killed.
I received my award letter today and Im not going to complain about what I got, or what I should have gotten. Technically, we never should have received a dime because of Pres Bush and the stupid law that stopped us from being able to sue the medical device companies. A few days after Medtronic settled, the U.S. Supreme Court shot our case down and he had no hope. I think we should all focus on getting the law changed so when our medical devices, which we all depend on daily, fail…we will be able to take them to court and get Justice. Im not trying to be cold or insensitive, but Im happy with what I received, because its more than what the current law allowed.
Don’t be like Barack and Blame Bush. Hell he didn’t write the law or pass it. I
Stupid Computer., Ted Kennedy co authored the law that the Supreme Court said We couldn’t sue companies that supplied Medical Devices that were approved by the FDA. You should know your history before ranting about something you have no knowledge of. Say what you like, just know what the facts are.
Plax, Maybe you should know your facts. You sit on these blogs acting like a cyber attorney. Google or even ask a real attorney…
Plavixman, I did as you said and was told they just received everything today. You were right. The awards are a joke. They are withholding 50% of mine until any subrogations are met. Also the lawyer dropped his fee from 33 1/3 to 31%. I never received anything to sign for the subrogation so they are going to let me know whether or not I owe. They told me it wouldn’t do any good to appeal. They have the award down to a science. How long a person had use of the lead and other criteria. Also like you said, even if you have a bad recalled lead that was replaced with another bad but not recalled lead you get nothing for the second lead. I just wonder if we will see what the payout was as far as tier levels.
I don’t think we will ever see a “payout” chart. Everything is suppose to be a big secret. With everything I have seen, I must say I am pleased with what I am to receive. With that being said, I thought the overall payouts were low. I do know they were higher and Judge Rosenbaum lowered them because he thought their wasn’t enough left for future claims. All these people getting the 1000 dollars registration fee should appreciate this. He was looking out for them as much as he could. Someone said they got 2 registration fees, wonder if that meant they had a bad lead replaced with a bad lead? But would that have not put them in tier II to start with. I can’t quite understand that one.
Future claims? I would say millions of dollars went into someones pocket, the judge, the lawyers, it sure was not the people that should have gotten it
I doubt there will be many future claims as most people who have have these things implanted in their chest will most likely be deceased either from these devices or from other health problems
Most people who had these implanted were elderly already sick with other health problems.
I was 34 when mine was implanted, My device was implanted as precautionary, im not elderly or have other health problems that would kill me. My lead was removed soon after it was implanted. I’m pretty sure not all the people would be dead in 4-7 years. If the lead doesn’t fracture during the 5-7 years, people can have a new one implanted when the defibrillators batteries are low and the device is replaced.
I got my award letter. It gives a gross dollar amount awarded and follows with attorney fees and cost to be deducted from that amount. I thought the attorneys got a percentage of the total settlement and then the rest would go to us. I think its sad that the dollars recieved from Medtronics go mainly to attorneys and some committee assigned with how little to give us. I thought we were the reason for the suit in the first place. I am not suppose to divulge my dollar amount but I noticed in the award letter it doesent state tiers it goes by classes. When did that change. I am glad to get something but I was expecting more. I am in tier 2 and had by lead replaced due to a fracture. The amount originally put out there was 35,000. What I am getting after attorney fees is less than a third. Well I am one of the little guys so I guess I will take what I can get.
Here is the deal as I know it. I received a e-mail from my attorney informing me that my settlement amount that came from the claims committee was 20,000. This is after I was shocked a number of times and was in the hospital for 3 days and I had the bad lead changed. The bad part of this is the amount of 20,000 will be reduced even lower because they are deducting 5% per year that you had this device implianted and fuctioning correctly. The total amount that will come out of your settlement will be 49%. This is a disgrace. I was orginally told that I would get 35,000 that is not the case.
ok folks, since my friends corrected me with my math some posts ago
Lets do some more math with correct figures. We have a total settlement amount of 220 million, the judge took out 20 million for fees etc from the 220 so its 200 million. if there were 14000 plus claimaints and approx 7k had issues, fractures, etc and all 7k were awarded 20k that would equate to 140 million. now you have extradionary injury that may add another 10 to 20 million. you have the 1k for possibly 7k others which is 7 million. in the future if these claimaints have issues one would think there maybe 30 to 40 million left for future payments. Anything not used in the future would be returned to claimants. With the 5 percent reduction for yearly usage, the awards go down as the yrs go by for future claims.
Before I upset too many of you Demos. Kennedy had introduced a bill to correct his error he made back in the late 70’s. It is called the MDSA, However his original bill is the cause of “preemption” as it is referred to as. Just get tired of Bush bashing when people say it and don’t know what they are talking about. The Supreme Count made this decision under the watch of the OBAMA administration. Does that make it his fault. HELL NO
Let me clarify one thing, sorry, The Supreme Court Decision was made while Bush was still president. As I said about Obama, was it Bush’s Fault, HELL NO!
We need to call every news station let them know what is going on. I call my lawyers and I was told they don’t know how much I will get. I had ask for a loan and was told no because they did not know how much money I was going to get. I went to the web where the judges that was over the cases and I seen were you can COMPLAINT. So we all need to complaint.
I know that Medtronic will keep getting richer while we all will be praying that we would get the right money for our case. I think long ago Medtronic would have step up to the plate and said we are going to do the right thing. All we can do now is let the world know what is going on.
Diana, what’s the Web Site?
Just got the award letter for my mother, 1000.00 can you believe that? My mother was shocked 10 times through out the day into the night by this piece of shit, got blood clots went to the nursing home afterwards because she was to weak to come home. What the hell?
Oh and just got the letter today and she wants to appeal must do it by the 14th today is already the 9th.
GOT MY AWARD, THE BIG BUCKS $1000.00 ONLY TOOK 4&1/2 YRS. WAS SHOCKED NUMEROUS TIMES. ONLY GOT LISTED AS A TIER ONE. AFTER STAYING IN HOSPITAL A COUPLE OF WEEKS, AND HAVING THE DEVICE “REPOSITIONED” I WAS STILL IN HOSPITAL WHEN THEY HIT. WAS TOLD THAT MY CASE WAS A DISLODGEMENT OF THE LEADS WHEN I CALLED ABOUT THE PALTRY AMOUNT. AFTER TURNING OFF AND REPOSITIONING, THIS IS WHEN THE SHOCKS APPEARED THE DEVISE WAS THEN TURNED OFF PERMANTLY, IT IS STILL IN MY CHEST. NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME THEY INFORM ME THAT IT WAS DISLODGED. HOW THEY KNOW THAT, ESPECIALLY WHEN I WAS NEVER INFORMED. ANYONE ELSE GET THIS INFO?
Yes Im appealing this crap and I agree if we can reach any news agency that will listen we should.I cannot believe after talking to my attorneys assistant or whatever she is I asked how they can say she didnt have any problems with second lead when she had been shocked several times by the damn thing one time blowing her back into her chair after she got shocked while she was standing up.Thats just one of the times she went to the hospital and they adjusted her device because s he was shocked.They are classifing her as regististration payment on both our claims and Im not letting this go.I was the caretaker through this whole thong and watched all the infections that came from the first faulty lead and the shocks from the second faulty lead they implanted before the recall.
Lance, Go to CNBC American Greed.
Hey crapedonroyally what they told you about dislodgement crap is almost word for word what they said to me about my grandmothers first faulty implant.Whos your lawyer wonder if we got the same people?Im appealing but here is the kicker my lawyers informed me that all the shocks I reported to them from the second faulty lead wasnt even submitted to the committee.Im so madddd right now.How could they not include this?They may have just screwed us because my letter says that no new evidence can be submitted with the objection but my lawyer says we are gonna to submit it anyway.Right now they are just trying to save their asses.Can you sue your law firm for not doing their damn job???
Yes you can file ethics charges with the bar association if they did not act in good faith on your behalf.
I am kind of suprised that more of you aren’t dead…I’m sure all of us had to go through a huge event in order to be in this position. With all the negitivity spewing from some of you I can’t believe you could have survived the crisis that set all of this in motion!
It is what it is, you can sit here for the rest of you life b!@#hing about something that’s not going to change or you can go find something more productive and meaningful to do…My glass is half full
I agree with you, Toria. The ones of us that are posting are still alive and what our life becomes is what we make of it! We can’t blame others the rest of our life. With the laws the way they are we were lucky to get anything.
Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!