Heart valve suit
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
A news brief appearing in the Jan. 21, 2008, issue (1back cover) incorrectly stated that a patient death at issue in Blanco v. Baxter - a case decided by a California appeals court in favor of a heart valve device manufacturer that was sued for wrongful death - prompted a Class I recall of the device. In fact, the product recall occurred in 1988 and the patient death in question occurred in 2002