Philips’ Class Action Complaint Against SoClean Dismissed Without Prejudice

PITTSBURGH — The judge overseeing the MDL dockets for cases involving Philips CPAP devices and SoClean CPAP cleaning devices has dismissed a class action complaint filed by Philips against SoClean without prejudice, ruling that it should have been filed in the Philips CPAP MDL, rather than the SoClean MDL.

In a Dec. 18 order, Judge Joy Flowers Conti of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania also severed a third-party complaint filed by Philips against SoClean that seeks contribution toward an economic loss claims settlement reached in the Philips CPAP MDL.

The judge explained that the …