Medtronic Settles Man’s Suit Over Alleged Pacemaker Defect

Medtronic Inc. and a South Carolina man alleging his pacemaker failed because of a manufacturing flaw have reached a private settlement, federal court filings show.

Emery Feeser received an Azure S DR MRI SureScan device in July 2018. He alleged that the pacemaker stopped working and had to be replaced because it was inadvertently manufactured without a protective coating meant to reduce the likelihood of rejection by a recipient. The coating was part of the design approved by the Food and Drug Administration, he said.

In February, Judge David C. Norton of the US District Court for the District of ...