Two whistleblowers convinced a federal court in Washington to require doctors in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee to preserve medical records related to a False Claims Act suit against Medtronic Inc. alleging fraudulent claims for a surgically implanted medical device.
Former Medtronic employees Melissa Staggers and Rhonda Kurdelmeyer allege that Medtronic encouraged doctors to implant InterStim—used to help control symptoms of incontinence—in patients for whom it wasn’t medically necessary. They sought an order requiring all nonparty doctors that performed InterStim surgeries in the US since 2003 to preserve their records.
A nationwide order would be overbroad, Magistrate Judge Robin M. Meriweather ...
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