Trial Lawyer & Registered Nurse
Medical Products Cases Nationwide
Medical Device & Drug Injury Lawsuits are accepted by Carolyn St. Clair, RN, BSN, JD, PLLC, a trial lawyer and former surgical nurse. St. Clair has amassed a wealth of success as an open heart Operating Room Nurse and Supreme Court of Texas Briefing Attorney. The firm has over thirty-eight years litigating personal injury and wrongful death cases across the nation.
High profile publicized product liability and negligentce cases that resulted in change to healthcare and industry standards include:
Jesica Santillan, televised on CBS News Sixty Minutes, Anatomy Of A Mistake, involved a lawsuit for a teenager who died from mismatched blood during a heart transplant at Duke University Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina; and
Dr. Hitoshi Nikadoh, a surgical resident, who was tragically killed as he stepped into an elevator at Christus St. Joseph Hospital in Houston, Texas.
Continuing her representation of people harmed by medical products, Carolyn St. Clair focuses on the following indiviual lawsuits:
Hernia Mesh and Transvaginal Mesh – Many of the mesh products are no longer sold on the medical market. We have successfully filed mesh implant lawsuits for women injured by products manufactured by:
The FDA in 2016 reclassified transvaginal mesh as “high risk”, requiring Boston Scientific, and Coloplast to get approval under the agency’s most stringent review process to continue selling the devices. The controversial devices, which are made of synthetic polypropylene, have sparked hundreds of thousands of lawsuits by women claiming the mesh had caused life-altering pain and injury.
Medical Devices – Medical devices need to be approved as both safe and effective by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but medical device manufacturers have found a way to skirt those rules by claiming their device is not new but simply another version of a previously-approved device. However, even subtle differences can have significant consequences, and all devices should be tested for patient safety.
Video Game Addiction – Video Games are manufactured to affect the brain’s reward centers and keep the gamers playing for as long as possible and spend money playing. Excessive video game use may lead to negative effects, such as stress, aggressive behavior, verbal memory deficiency, depression, lowered cognitive abilities, sleeping disorders, anxiety, and behavioral addiction. Further, a serious gaming addiction can severely harm a child’s social life, future job success and over all physical and mental wellness.
CPAP and BiPAP machines made by Philips Respironics for sleep apnea manufactured between 2009 to 2021 may have been recalled because a polyester based polyurethane foam (PE-PUR) can break down into particles and release toxic chemicals into the machine. These toxins can be inhaled and swallowed by the user resulting in life threatening injuries such as asthma, lung cancer, COPD/Chronic respiratory illness, pulmonary hypertension, kidney disease or kidney cancer, shortness of breath/difficulty breathing, or other conditions and diseases arising after using the recalled machine for over one year. Do not stop using your CPAP or BiPAP machine without first consulting a competent doctor for advice.
Drug Recalls – Zantac has been recalled from the market due to a link between cancer after regular use of the drug.
Roundup Weed Killer – We represent people who regularly used developed forms of cancer, including, non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Hairy Cell Leukemia, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma, Angioimmunoblastic Lymphoma, Blastic NK-Cell Lymphoma, Burkitt’s Lymphoma, Burkitt-like Lymphoma (Small Non-Cleaved Cell Lymphoma), Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia/Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma, Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma, Diffuse Large BCell Lymphoma, Enteropathy-Type T-Cell Lymphoma, Follicular Lymphoma, Hepatosplenic GammaDelta T-Cell Lymphoma, Lymphoblastic Lymphoma, Mantle Cell Lymphoma, Marginal Zone Lymphoma, Nasal T-Cell Lymphoma, Pediatric Lymphoma, Peripheral T-Cell Lymphomas, Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma, T-Cell Leukemias, Transformed Lymphomas, Treatment-Related T-Cell Lymphomas, and Waldenström Macroglobulinemia.
Proving that a particular product caused cancer or other another serious medical issue requires both a strong medical and legal background. Carolyn St. Clair can interact with experts on a peer basis and truly understand how to prepare and present a strong case proving a product maker’s liability.
Accidents – With over thirty-eight years as a personal injury trial lawyer, Carolyn St. Clair is fluent in the full range of personal injury matters across the country. St. Clair takes on cases with significant injuries and complex legal issues to win recoveries for her clients.
Medical and Judicial Clerk Expertise
With decades of success, St. Clair understands the multiple health, legal and financial issues that overwhelm injured clients in multidistrict litigation (MDL), class actions, and individual lawsuits in federal and state courts. St. Clair’s experience as an operating room nurse with world-renowned heart surgeons Dr. Denton Cooley and Dr. Michael DeBakey, and as a Supreme Court briefing attorney in Texas, lends a swift analysis of the damages and liability of each case. Working with legal legends John O’Quinn, Joe Jamail and Howard Nations, she gained valuable skills in courtroom trial strategy. St. Clair enhanced her education with negotiation, mediation, and arbitration at the Harvard Law School Negotiation Institute. Lawyers, clients and medical professionals refer injured people to her firm. In further recognition of her abilities, St. Clair was selected to serve the IVC Filter litigation committee overseeing bellwether jury trials.
Your Personal Injury Trial Firm Nationwide and in Houston, New York, Washington, D.C.
Easily available to consult with injured individuals, Carolyn St. Clair can communicate updates about health and litigation with her clients. Deadlines to file injury cases can pass before you know it, especially if you were seriously debilitated for a period of time and have been consumed with getting better while also dealing with mountains of doctor and hospital paperwork, not to mention the chaos and disruption in your life an accident can bring. Email carolyn@carolynstclair.com or call us at 1-800-814-4540. We look forward to hearing from you.
