An ambitious lawsuit that sought to force a Lehigh Valley medical equipment company to pay for medical monitoring for thousands of people that lawyers argued faced an increased risk of cancer was denied class action status by a Lehigh County judge.
In a memorandum filed Dec. 31, Lehigh County Judge Michele Varricchio determined that the lawsuit against B. Braun, brought forward by plaintiff Mourad Abdelaziz and attorneys from prominent firms Grant & Eisenhofer and Morgan & Morgan, failed to meet class action lawsuit requirements.
Adbelaziz’s lawyers originally filed a lawsuit against B. Braun in 2019 in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. The case was transferred to Lehigh County in 2020, and in 2024, lawyers filed a motion for class action certification…