A recent report in The New York Times indicated that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is holding a rare “all-hands meeting” to discuss strategic issues in the medical device division of the agency is a further indication that safety approval of medical devices has been compromised, putting patients’ health and safety at risk.  The meeting shows that the FDA sees an urgent need for reform in the agency especially when it comes to medical devices that have seen massive recalls and no recourse of litigation for those injured by these devices.

The American Association for Justice (AAJ) has been working with a large coalition of consumer and patient safety groups to pass the Medical Device Safety Act (MDSA), legislation that would restore the rights of medical device patients to seek justice in state courts when they have been harmed by unsafe medical devices.