1- Florida’s Attorney General’s Office: Firm fleeced docs for $100M:
https://health.wusf.usf.edu/hnf-stories/2009-11-30/ag-firm-fleeced-docs-for-100m
2- Florida Attorney general against James J Gibson Jr personally:
3- James J. Gibson, and its vice-president Nicholas Exarhos using false and misleading claims to market their DRX 9000 decompression machines.
https://quackwatch.org/cases/ag/fl/axiom/
4- DRX delisted and terminated on FDA records
5-Defendants Excite Medical Corp. and Saleem Musallam’s Motion for Modification of Injunction Denied (DRX Trademark fight)
https://casetext.com/case/axiom-worldwide-inc-v-htrd-grp-hong-kong-ltd-1
6-DRX 9000 Management Tactics Turn A Good Spinal Treatment Into Bad Press for Its Owners
https://www.cbc.ca/news/low-back-clinic-claims-questioned-marketplace-1.866810
7- “Excerpt from Fairwarning News organization expose’:
One of the claims the regulators targeted was from a 2003 study by Dr. Thomas Gionis [on DRX 9000] — who had previously done prison time and had his license put on probation after being convicted of plotting an assault on his estranged wife — that found 86 percent of patients treated with an unnamed spinal decompression device experienced an “immediate resolution of symptoms.”
The Florida attorney general, in its 2009 lawsuit against Axiom Worldwide accusing the company of deceptive and unfair trade practices. (Axiom was using the study in its promotions even though the study did not specify what type of spinal decompression table it tested.) Six years later, without admitting any violations of the law, Axiom agreed to a permanent injunction promising only to make any claims based on “competent and reliable scientific evidence” and to reimburse the attorney general $19,000 for its costs.
Gionis, who maintained his innocence in the assault on his wife, did not respond to a request for an interview.
Musallam, who worked at Axiom before starting Excite Medical, eventually winning the intellectual property rights to the DRX9000 through protracted litigation, called the Gionis study “worthless” and said he didn’t use it.
8-National Institute of Health Discredits DRX 9000 Treatment Device and Literature
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2882487/
9- Excite Medical Claims Of Manufacturing Clearance with FDA Appear Inconsistent With FDA Site Status
https://fda.report/Company/Excite-Medical-Of-Tampa-Bay-L-L-C
10 – Defendant can’t take advantage of TM abandonment it created
https://tushnet.com/2015/12/17/defendant-cant-take-advantage-of-tm-abandonment-it-created/
11 – Doctors who buy equipment from disreputable companies risk getting themselves in litigation because of their association with such companies.