When Medical Technology Goes Wrong (Update)

Hastings v Finsbury Orthopaedics Ltd and Stryker UK Ltd [2021] CSIH 6 Back in QMLR Issue 4 we covered Hastings v Finsbury Orthopaedics Ltd in the Outer House of the Scottish Court of Session. That case dealt with the question of what happens when medical technology goes wrong and the…

When Medical Technology Goes Wrong

Hastings v Finsbury Orthopaedics Ltd and Stryker UK Ltd [2019] CSOH 96  This article originally appeared in Issue 4 (March 2020). Modern medicine increasingly makes use of sophisticated technology, from algorithms for assisting in diagnosis to robots for surgical procedures. But what happens when the technology goes wrong; who is…