J&J Subsidiary Biosense Webster’s $147 Million Catheter Antitrust Loss Tripled To $442 Million

Berger Montague, a national plaintiffs’ law firm, is pleased to announce that it and co-counsel—Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, PLLC; Jeffrey Berhold, P.C.; and Theodora Oringher P.C.—have had their $147 million jury verdict trebled to $442 million. U.S. District Judge James Selna tripled the $147 million in lost profits the jury awarded to Innovative for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. He said he will next decide on injunctive relief.

“This is just one more step in this significant win for our client,” said Berger Montague Shareholder Joshua P. Davis, who leads the firm’s Appeals & Complex Briefing practice. “This complex case had originally been granted summary judgment and now our client has been vindicated, upping the $147 million judgment to $442 million,” said Mr. Davis. “Our team believed in our client, and this shows the team’s prowess in handling appeals and complex litigation.”

Innovative Health refurbishes and resells Biosense cardiac catheters to hospitals. The medical procedures at issue in the case treat the most common cardiac conditions, including various forms of irregular heart rates that can cause a stroke or a heart attack. Innovative offers dramatic savings to hospitals on the technology for these procedures, holding the potential to significantly decrease costs to hospitals and their patients.

Berger Montague is one of the nation’s preeminent law firms focusing on complex civil litigation, class actions, and mass torts in federal and state courts throughout the United States. The firm is active in the fields of antitrust, commercial litigation, consumer protection, defective products, environmental law, employment law, securities, and whistleblower cases, among many other practice areas. For more than 50 years, Berger Montague has played lead roles in precedent-setting cases and has recovered over $50 billion for its clients and the classes they have represented. Berger Montague is headquartered in Philadelphia and has offices in Chicago; Malvern, PA; Minneapolis; San Diego; San Francisco; Toronto, Canada; Washington, D.C., and Wilmington, DE.

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