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Comment on any ongoing litigation. but in a court filing seeking to dismiss the suit, the firm said the taser devices, quote, are repeatedly proven safe through testing, including on human volunteers in controlled medically approved studies, and there's no evidence tasering of people induces cardiac arrest. the company has significantly changed its recommendations for how tasers should be used. taser put out a directive last year telling the tens of thousands of police officers who use the device to no longer aim for the chest area. instead, they should go for the back, the legs or the lower p...

They said it was unlikely it would cause cardiac arrest, but they recommended not firing at the chest. in plain english, says heart expert douglas zibes, who is being paid to testify against taser, it means there is concern about tasers causing cardiac arrest in some cases. >> i think taser has been disingenuous and certainly up to 2006, the case we're talking about, taser said in their educational materials that there was no cardiac risk whatsoever, that taser couldn't produce a heart problem. there was no long-lasting effect from taser. >> a taser spokesman e mailed cnn saying it would not c...