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Against this unfriendly background are two recent federal appeals court decisions that are a revolutionary departure from the trend of ever increasing liability for medical device manufacturers. Both cases used the doctrine of federal preemption to bar most state tort law claims against a medical device manufacturer. Since both cases reach substantially the same result, we will discuss the first of the cases to be decided, King v. Collagen Corp.[4]
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