, there have been more than 105,000 complaints about the machines to the Food and Drug Administration to date, and they have been associated with 385 reported deaths, with 40 of those being reported this year alone.about this first wave of the settlements, lawyers for the plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit over the devices said that Philips will be providing affected users anywhere from $55 to $1,552 in damages, along with $100 per device returned and additional funds to replace them.
earlier this year to handle complaints about the company's ongoing recall of its CPAP machines and other respiratory devices. That amount is by no means chump change, but it is evidence of the slow-moving nature of class-action lawsuits that it's taken more than two years sinceIt's undeniably good that those affected and their families are getting some much-deserved compensation for this harmful machine malfunction, but it'd be better if the devices didn't screw up so royally in the first place.