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Lead Counsel Ben C. Martin Secures Ground-breaking $3 million Verdict in IVC Filter Bellwether Trial
Just before midnight on February 1, after deliberating for over 10 hours, an Indianapolis jury found that the design of Cook Medical’s Celect IVC filter is defective and awarded the Law Offices of Ben C. Martin’s client Tonya Brand $3 million in compensatory damages. The verdict represents at least two firsts: it is the largest…
FDA Issues Warning Letter to C.R. Bard Regarding IVC Filter Retrieval Device Violations
The FDA sent a warning letter to Bard regarding the device it manufactures and markets, and in particular, the Recovery Cone Removal System that is used to retrieve the company’s “optional” G2 IVC filters from the human body. C.R. Bard, Inc. has been making these filters, and others with a similar purpose, to prevent deep…
FDA Issues Update to Initial Medwatch Safety Communication
On May of 2014, the FDA issued an update to its first Medwatch safety communication regarding IVC filter complications. The first safety communication dealing with these devices, which are small umbrella or cone-shaped metallic devices implanted in the inferior vena cava to capture blood clots and prevent a pulmonary embolism (PE), detailed many complications associated…
FDA Issues Medwatch Safety Communication Regarding IVC Filter Complication
In August of 2010, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a Medwatch Safety Communication that discussed issues with inferior vena cava filters. The release was intended for doctors, interventional radiologists and cardiologists, vascular surgeons, and other medical professionals who deal with vena cava filters. Initially, the update discussed the purpose for these filters,…
Hearing for Centralization of IVC Filter Litigation
On July 30, 2015, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) is scheduled to begin hearing arguments regarding the centralization of IVC filter complications lawsuits against pharmaceutical company C.R. Bard, Inc. Earlier this year, lawsuits filed against another medical device manufacturer, Cook Medical, was centralized by the JPML. The devices in question – called inferior…
Judge Denies Bard’s Motion to Seal Documents
There are an increasing number of suits being filed against C.R. Bard, Inc. regarding their G2 Vena Cava Filters and Recovery Vena Cava Filters. As part of many of these lawsuits, a report that was generated by a doctor who worked with Bard – as well as other information – was provided to plaintiffs and…
Problems With Transvaginal Surgical Mesh
Transvaginal surgical mesh procedures have become problematic. These procedures include implanting a synthetic or biological material in order to repair weakened or damaged tissue and organs, often in a woman’s pelvic area. The diagnosis is typically referred to as pelvic organ prolapse (“POP”), or stress urinary incontinence (“SUI”). In 2008, the FDA issued a Public…
What is A Vena Cava Filter?
A Vena Cava Filter – also called an Inferior Vena Cava Filter – is a small cone-shaped wire-type medical device that is implanted in the inferior vena cava, slightly below the kidneys. IVC Filters are developed in order to capture blood clots that have moved from the lower extremities, such as the deep veins in…
The Bard IVC Filter: Its Purpose and Its Problems
C.R. Bard’s IVC Filter is a small medical device that is implanted in the Inferior Vena Cava (“IVC”), which is the vein that carries blood to the heart. That’s where you can find the purpose for the IVC Filter: to catch blood clots before they can travel to the lungs. You see, when blood clots…