{"id":3808,"date":"2026-10-13T07:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2026-10-10T13:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T18:07:04","slug":"abbott-spine-stimulator-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/abbott-spine-stimulator-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott Spine Stimulator Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/giuliamar-spinal-column-246273-scaled-e1791655542187.jpg\" alt=\"giuliamar-spinal-column-246273-scaled-e1791655542187\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\" \/>Chronic pain is debilitating. Neurostimulation or spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is one type of pain management; it works by sending low intensity electrical impulses to a patient\u2019s nerve structures. Abbott makes various kinds of SCS systems that plaintiffs allege are flawed and caused injuries. Lawsuits have been filed that allege the SCS implants can break through skin, migrate, give painful shocks, cause nerve damage and fail outright; these may require expensive revision or removal surgery. On October 2, the JPML centralized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutlawsuits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MDL-3194-Transfer_Order-9-26.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">26 lawsuits against Abbott<\/a> across 13 districts to be heard by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. If you were injured by the Abbott spine stimulator, you should call the seasoned Chicago-based product liability lawyers of Moll Law Group about whether you have a claim. Billions have been recovered in cases with which we\u2019ve been involved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Call Moll Law Group About Your Claim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Centralization permits lawsuits against the same manufacturer go through discovery and other pretrial proceedings together, which allows common questions to be decided consistently. In each case, plaintiffs still need to establish that the device in question cased their injuries. The plaintiffs in the initial cases that sought centralization in multidistrict litigation claimed that since the original premarket approvals, Abbott and Boston Scientific, another defendant, had introduced new devices that were significantly modified under supplements to their original premarket approvals. The plaintiffs alleged that they were implanted with spinal cord stimulators from these different companies and suffered injuries such as neurological problems, autonomic dysfunction, burning, shocking, lead migration and insufficient pain relief.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation found that proponents of an industry-wide MDL had failed to meet their burden of showing that an MDL with a wide scope would be appropriate since each manufacturer had its own line of devices, each of which had different regulatory histories. It found that given the differences among the lawsuits naming various manufacturers, an industry-wide MDL would probably complicate case management, due to the need to protect confidential information and trade secrets. Additionally, there was no common mechanism of defect alleged among all the different spinal cord stimulators.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/abbott-spine-stimulator-lawsuits\/#more-3808\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronic pain is debilitating. Neurostimulation or spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is one type of pain management; it works by sending low intensity electrical impulses to a patient\u2019s nerve structures. Abbott makes various kinds of SCS systems that plaintiffs allege are flawed and caused injuries. Lawsuits have been filed that allege the SCS implants can break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medical-devices","category-product-liability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Abbott Spine Stimulator Lawsuits &#8212; Illinois Injury and Mass Tort Lawyer Blog &#8212; October 13, 2026<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chronic pain is debilitating. 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