Lawsuit Filed Over Alleged Heparin Death
A Pennsylvania lawyer filed a wrongful death lawsuit yesterday on behalf of the family of a man who died after allegedly receiving contaminated heparin from Covidien, a Massachusetts supplier of heparin. Plaintiff's complaint alleges that Covidien failed to recall batches of heparin that it knew or had reason to know may be contaminated.
The focus of the heparin cases has been on Baxter, which supplies approximately half of the heparin used in the United States. But Scientific Protein Laboratories supplied the active ingredient in heparin for both Baxter and Covidien.
I don't know enough about the timing of the Corvidien withdrawal and this man's use of heparin to know whether this is also a failure to recall case. But if this man did receive heparin after others had withdrawn heparin from the market, you can bet Corvidien's lawyers will not be racing to the courthouse steps to try that case.
