One of the first laparoscopic power morcellator lawsuits filed in federal court settled for an undisclosed amount last week before it was scheduled to reach trial.
Scott Burkhart filed the lawsuit against LiNA Medical in March 2014 after his wife, Donna, died of a uterine cancer called myelosarcoma after she underwent a hysterectomy performed with a power morcellator. The company settled the case before it was set to go to trial later this year, ahead of about 20 other morcellator lawsuits, but did not comment on the settlement.
As many as 1 in 350 women is suspected of having undiagnosed uterine sarcoma that may be spread during morcellation, according to the U.S.
