Dallas Medical Products Company ThermoTek Wins $9.6 Million in Fraud Case

U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater has entered a judgment of $9.6 million for medical products manufacturer ThermoTek Inc. after a jury found that a competitor fraudulently obtained the company’s business information for a series of physical therapy machines.

ThermoTek is the Flower Mound, Texas-based manufacturer of VascuTherm2, Vascutherm4 and other products that are used in the treatment of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and other medical conditions.

In 2010, ThermoTek was sued by a distributor, which alleged faulty manufacture.

ThermoTek’s lawyers from the Dallas-based law firm Rose•Walker managed to move the case to Dallas, where Judge Fitzwater dismissed a number of the original claims. The attorneys then brought a counterclaim, alleging plaintiffs fraudulently obtained ThermoTek’s business information in order to design and sell their own products. During the litigation, some of the plaintiffs were sanctioned for failing to produce documents.

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