Firm News: Jun. 2015

Personal records and insurance information on 18,000 North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System patients were compromised by a data breach that occurred last year in Texas but went undisclosed for many months, and now Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. is considering filing negligence, economic injury and failure-to-warn claims against Dallas-based Global Care Delivery, the law firm…

Prompted by a recent study, Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C. is investigating the ProxiLock Hip Prosthesis stem manufactured by Zimmer Inc. The implant was originally manufactured by Implex Corp., and was given 510(k) approval by at least October, 2002. Zimmer Inc. announced an agreement to acquire Implex in November, 2003. The study, “Increased Risk of Periprosthetic…

W&L has begun looking into the dangers of using the TigerPaw System II during occlusion of the heart’s left atrial appendage, a procedure sometimes performed in patients with atrial fibrillation to prevent blood clots from collecting and traveling to other parts of the body. The firm has discovered reports regarding the closure device reported in…

Nationally prominent personal injury law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., today said that 95 percent of registered eligible patients are now enrolled in the Stryker modular hip settlement program. This program has been established to ensure that each injured patient will receive a share of more than $1 billion as compensation for problems encountered with…

Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. is investigating potential economic injury claims against CareFirst BlueCross/BlueShield after computer hackers carried out a data breach and accessed the confidential private records of some 1.1 million of the Baltimore-based health insurer’s policy holders.In disclosing on May 13 that the data breach had occurred, CareFirst did not say when it discovered…