Olympus America Inc. must pay $6.56 million to a Seattle hospital where an outbreak of antibiotic-resistant infections caused by contaminated Olympus duodenoscopes sickened 39 people, 18 of whom died (Bigler v. Olympus America Inc., Wash. Super. Ct., No. 15-2-05472-4 SEA, verdict 7/24/17).
The case is the first of multiple suits outstanding in the U.S. to reach a jury verdict addressing allegations that Olympus knew there were problems with the ability to adequately clean the scopes after each procedure but failed to inform hospitals of the problem. Duodenoscopes from various manufacturers were linked to at least 25 different infection ...
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