In re Telectronics Pacing Systems, Inc.

After Telectronics's (defendant) J-Lead pacemaker device's retention wire allegedly fractured and caused serious medical complications and deaths, Eugene and Elise Owens and others (plaintiffs) brought a nationwide products-liability class action in consolidated multidistrict litigation; after the court initially certified and then decertified a single nationwide class, Owens proposed multiple subclasses tailored to different claims — one for medical monitoring, two for negligence, four for strict liability, and three for punitive damages — to manage variations in state law.