Days after a federal judge said Pennsylvania law was hazy on whether strict liability medical-device claims are barred, attorneys in the practice area said the state’s courts have been perfectly clear on the matter—though each offered a different interpretation.
On July 20, U.S. District Judge Cathy Bissoon of the Western District of Pennsylvania ruled in Cogswell v. Wright Medical Technology that the plaintiff’s strict-liability defect claims related to his hip implant were barred.
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