Connecticut Law Requires Medical Device Makers to Report to FDA

Connecticut’s product liability law obligates a medical device maker to report complications to the Food and Drug Administration, the state’s top court said in a suit over a Bausch & Lomb Inc. cataract lens.

The advance opinion from the Connecticut Supreme Court, to be released Tuesday, came in response to a query by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit asking it to interpret state-law questions that would determine whether a woman’s claims against Bausch & Lomb and others are preempted by federal medical device law.

Marjorie Glover alleged that defective Trulign Toric lenses implanted in her eyes ...