Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Medtronic Inc. and other medical- device makers have a chance to win a new shield from patient lawsuits in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. In arguments today in Washington, the justices will consider whether patients can press product-liability lawsuits over devices cleared for sale by the Food and Drug Administration’s most rigorous approval process. A federal appeals court barred a suit that claims a New York man suffered permanent injury when a Medtronic heart catheter burst during an angioplasty.
