Defibrillators

Congress Provides Funding for Schools to Purchase Life-Saving Devices

November 9, 2007 -- Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Susan Collins (R-ME) announced today that Congress approved funding for a program they set up to assist schools in purchasing and providing training on automated external defibrillators (AEDs).    » read more »

Amendment to Appropriations Bill Boosts Funding for Schools to Purchase Life-Saving Devices

October 24, 2007 -- Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Susan Collins (R-ME) announced today that the Senate has passed their effort to increase funding for a program to assist schools in purchasing and training on automated external defibrillators (AEDs). Feingold and Collins introduced an amendment to the Labor-HHS Appropriations bill to increase funding for the Automated Defibrillators in Adam’s Memory (ADAM) Act, a program they have long championed.    » read more »

August 30, 2007 -- SEATTLE – Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna today announced a $16.75 million multistate settlement with Guidant Corporation that extends a replacement program for certain heart defibrillators built prior to November 2002.    » read more »

August 30, 2007 - Today Vermont Attorney General William H. Sorrell announced that he reached an agreement with Guidant Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Boston Scientific and one of the world’s three largest manufacturers of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs). The settlement resolves Attorney General Sorrell’s concerns about the way in which Guidant Corporation sold one ICD, the Ventak Prizm 2 DR Model 1861 (Prizm) in 2002 and 2003.    » read more »

Guidant Corp. corrects device defects, settles with states for $16.75 million

August 30, 2007 -- DALLAS – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and 35 state attorneys general today reached a $16.75 million settlement with the maker of an implantable heart defibrillator. State attorneys general took legal action against Guidant Corp. for marketing the unmodified device even after the manufacturer discovered and corrected a circuitry problem that could have caused the device to fail. Guidant learned of the problem in 2002.    » read more »

August 30, 2007 -- HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania, 34 other states, and the District of Columbia have reached a $16,750,000 settlement with the Guidant Corporation resolving allegations that the company failed to warn physicians and consumers about a design flaw in one of their implantable defibrillators, a device used by patients with life-threatening heart conditions.

Attorney General Tom Corbett said the Guidant Corporation is a subsidiary of Boston Scientific and one of the world's largest manufacturers of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs).    » read more »

August 30, 2007 -- Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers today filed a $16.75 million settlement agreement with Guidant Corporation of Minnesota and Indiana (Guidant), one of the world's three largest manufacturers of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICD). The settlement resolves allegations that the company sold ICDs without disclosing that the medical devices had wiring problems that could result in potentially fatal short circuits.    » read more »