Mosby v. Ingalls Memorial Hospital (Illinois Supreme Court) April 27, 2023
The case involved expansive Biometric Privacy Act (BIPA) liability for medical device manufacturers. The device at issue was a medstation manufactured by BD that stores patient pharmaceuticals that can be unlocked only by authorized users by scanning their fingers. AdvaMed® took the position that health care workers’ biometric information, used to permit access to medication dispensing stations for patient care, falls under information collected, used, or stored for health care treatment, payment, or operations under HIPAA and is exempt from BIPA’s protections.
Read a copy of the AdvaMed® amicus brief.
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AdvaMed Comment Letter to OIG’s RFI on Clinical Trial Remuneration and Fraud & Abuse Laws
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Stop Counterfeit & Grey Market Medical Devices at the Border
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Medtech Compliance Is More Complex so We Built a Program to Match
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September 16, 2026 | 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM
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News / Amicus Briefs / Ethylene Oxide / Legal
AdvaMed® Urges Georgia Court of Appeals to Enforce Sound Science in Ethylene Oxide Litigation
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WASHINGTON—AdvaMed, the MedTech Association®, the world’s largest medtech trade association, representing over 650 medical technology innovators, has filed an amicus curiae brief in the Walker v. Becton, Dickinson and Company and C. R. Bard, Inc. case now before the Georgia Court of Appeals, urging the Court to reverse a trial court ruling that allowed unreliable expert testimony on ethylene oxide (EtO) exposure.
Resource / Legal
AdvaMed® Comment Letter to OIG’s Annual Solicitation for Safe Harbors and Special Fraud Alerts
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