Today’s case, Schmidt v. Dexcom, Inc., 2026 WL 2244106 (E.D. Mich. Aug 2, 2026), involves a glucose monitoring device (the “G6”) and a pretty bad day for the plaintiff—both in terms of how he somehow managed to get a needle stuck in his arm when the device doesn’t go there and the shellacking he
This post is from the non-Reed Smith side of the Blog.
Breaking new ground, a court has for the first time held that the Medical Device Amendments to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act expressly preempt product-liability claims implicating a Class II medical device brought to market through the “de novo” classification process. This is