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Boston Scientific Announces Amended Agreement to Settle Product Lawsuits
Date:11/19/2007

NATICK, Mass., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced that an amended agreement has been reached to settle claims associated with a series of product communications issued by Guidant Corporation in 2005 and 2006. Boston Scientific acquired Guidant last year. This agreement amends a prior agreement Boston Scientific reached in July 2007 to cover additional unanticipated claims.

The amended agreement was reached during mediation sessions conducted before U.S. Magistrate Judge Arthur J. Boylan in Minneapolis.

Under the terms of the amended agreement, subject to certain conditions, Boston Scientific will pay a total of up to $240 million. The agreement covers 8,550 patient claims, including all of those that have been consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota in a Multi-District Litigation (MDL), as well as other filed and unfiled claims throughout United States. As a result of the amendment, proceedings in Minnesota state court have -- like the trials in the bellwether cases in the MDL -- been stayed.

Under the terms of the prior agreement, Boston Scientific had agreed to pay $195 million to settle over 4,000 claims in the MDL, as well as an undetermined number of additional similar claims. The Company believes that the claims covered by the amended agreement constitute substantially all currently asserted claims in the United States arising from the 2005 and 2006 product communications.

"We are pleased with this amendment, which is in the best interest of all involved," said Jim Tobin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Boston Scientific.

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