Legal Opinion
Prather v. Abbot Laboratories
District Court, W.D. Kentucky
Decided April 2, 2013No. Civil Action No. 3:09-CV-00573-HPublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
JOHN G. HEYBURN, II, District Judge.
This is a products liability and negligence case in which Plaintiff, Kris Prather, alleges that a medical device, the Pain Control Infusion Pump (“PCIP”), manufactured by Defendant, B. Braun Medical, Inc., caused severe and permanent damage to her shoulder.1 The PCIP is a medical device prescribed to alleviate the pain of a post-operative patient by delivering a continuous infusion of a local anesthetic into the post-operative site. Prather alleges several tort claims related to the PCIP after she developed chondrolysis in her…
2Cases cited36 opinions
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