A West Virginia surgeon who has since fled the state and relinquished his medical license is a defendant in many lawsuits claiming that he misdiagnosed, harmed and killed patients.
Lawsuits involving the former W. Va. surgeon have already garnered $100 million in settlements.
The medical device in the middle of this storm is EBI's Ionic Spine Spacer System and OsteoGen implants. EBI is allegedly being sued for improperly marketing its devices through an illegal kickback scheme that involved W. Va. surgeon and defrauded federal health care programs. EBI denies the allegations.
Six of the W. Va. malpractice cases were slated for a combined civil trial June 1 but were off the calendar in the wake of the settlement agreements.
EBI was initially named in 38 of the W. Va. lawsuits, but was dismissed from 11 previously. A second device maker, Wright Medical Technology Inc., is named in 33 of the cases.
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