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A Houston court unsealed documentx related to the legal complaints on Other companies named in the suitinclude , a Natick, Mass.-base d firm with operations in Maplr Grove and Arden and , of San Ramon, Endoscopic has agreed to pay $1.4 million to settled a claim filed by the U.S. Justice Fridley-based Medtronic said in a statemen that the unsealing of the documengt isa "normal step in the process set forth in the statuts for the handling of these kinds of "As with all litigatioj matters, this case will run its courswe through the judicial process, where Medtronic will file its responsesz and argue its positions," the company stated.
Officialws from Boston Scientific and Little Canada-based St. Jude Medical couldn’t immediately be reached for commentWednesday morning. The recent allegations accused the device companies of marketing products used to remove scar tissue as treatments foratrialo fibrillation, an abnormal heart rhythm. Federal regulators had not approvedc the use of the devices as a meanws to addressatrial fibrillation.