Surgical Robot Plaintiffs Ask JPML to Centralize, Transfer Cases

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The plaintiffs in a surgical robot injury case have asked the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to centralize and transfer all federal surgical robot cases to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. In re Intuitive Surgical Inc. Robotic Surgery Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2381 (JPML).

In a May 9 motion, Patricia and Drennan Mayfield assert that the legal theories and facts asserted in such cases "are virtually identical and arise from the common conduct of the defendants in designing, manufacturing, selling and putting into the stream of commerce their defective products."

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