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Welcome. You may be visiting our website because you need the strength and experience of a lawyer who can help with defective Advanced Bionics cochlear implant devices. If you believe that you may have received an "Important Notification" letter from Advanced Bionics about your HiRes90k or Clarion II cochlear implant in either 2004 or 2006, we urge you to contact us to receive important legal information. Many of our clients' cochlear implants stopped working prematurely as described in the letter. If you received this correspondence, please contact us for more information.
The lawyers of Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. have expanded litigation against Advanced Bionics related to defective Advanced bionics cochlear implants implanted in young children and adults.
Some of the firm’s clients have suffered multiple implant surgeries due to a defective implant being surgically removed and replaced with a second defective implant that later failed.
"What is particularly disturbing," said Teresa Curtin, one of the lawyers with Weitz & Luxenberg who is herself Deaf and who has extensive experience with cochlear implants, "is that Advanced Bionics sold a device to be implanted in the delicate cochlea of young children and adults, yet violated the trust of these individuals by failing to ensure that their product was manufactured correctly. We are still receiving inquiries from individuals and families concerned about whether their or their child’s implants are currently failing and should be replaced."
Weitz & Luxenberg's initial lawsuits focused on defective Advanced Bionics HiRes90k cochlear implants. Those devices were the subject of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lawsuit that was settled in July 2008 with a $1,100,000 fine against Advanced Bionics and a $75,000 fine against Advanced Bionics’ CEO Jeffery Greiner, individually. Weitz & Luxenberg is now also accepting cases involving Advanced Bionics' earlier Clarion implant model based on similar defects and failures.
The firm’s clients range in age from 5 to 81 and vary widely in terms of whether they were born deaf, or lost their hearing gradually or suddenly. Yet virtually all enjoyed and appreciated being able to hear with a cochlear implant prior to their implant failures.
Potential symptoms of defective cochlear implants include:
·A sudden sensation of discomfort or pain;
·A sudden loud noise or popping sound;
·An intermittent functioning;
·A complete loss of sound;
·In infants or children, an unwillingness to wear the external headpiece, crying or fussiness when the sound processor is turned on, lack of expected progress or diminished progress in achieving speech/language milestones, or apparent loss of audiological benefit.
If you or your child has been implanted with a defective cochlear implant, or you have received notification that your Advanced Bionic’s cochlear implant may fail, we encourage you to contact a lawyer with Weitz & Luxenberg. The firm has a commitment to being accessible to the Deaf individuals and their families and has sign language interpreters and videophone access available. To find out more and obtain a free lawsuit review, please complete the form below.
