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Product Liability Missteps Top List Of Worst Legal Verdicts Of 2022

 
• By Elizabeth Orr

A recent webinar ranking last year’s best and worst legal verdicts said that product liability cases involving pelvic mesh and artificial lenses were the very worst. 

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The worst device-related legal cases of 2022 would lessen the standard of proof for plaintiffs in product liability cases, law firm Reed Smith senior life sciences policy analyst Jim Beck said during a recent webinar devoted to the very worst – and best – medtech courtroom verdicts handed down last year.

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