Accufuser Pain Pump Case Remanded to Texas State Court

FORT WORTH, Texas - A Texas federal judge has remanded a pain pump injury case to state court, ruling that the Texas-based sellers of the pump were not improperly joined under Texas law because they allegedly "exercised substantial control over the content of a warning or instruction that accompanied" the device. Helm v. Moog Inc., et al., No. 4:11-109 (N.D. Texas).

In a July 27 order, Judge Terry R. Means of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas added that the court cannot resolve the question of whether the sellers made such a representation in a summary …