Federal medical device law doesn’t bar a California man’s suit against Johnson & Johnson alleging he was temporarily blinded by defective Acuvue Oasys contact lenses, a federal court in California said (Money v. Johnson & Johnson, 2016 BL 172262, N.D. Cal., 3:15-cv-03213-LB, 5/31/16).
Stephen Money sufficiently pleaded manufacturing defect claims under California law that “parallel” applicable federal requirements, Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California said May 31.
The Food and Drug Administration granted premarket approval (PMA) for the lenses in December 2005. Money alleged specific violations of the ...
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