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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Law firms pressing legal cases against medical device makers took their quest for evidence to an unusual place: a crematorium.
Hennepin County sheriff's deputies collected heart defibrillators and pacemakers from Cremation and Trade Services Inc., of St. Paul, and sealed 42 of them in evidence bags, the Star Tribune of Minneapolis reported.
Attorneys who subpoenaed the devices have brought cases against Guidant Corp. and Medtronic Inc., which have recalled nearly 400,000 defibrillators and pacemakers in the past year because of possible defects.
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