The Bard IVC Filter Injury lawsuits heading to trial set for 2017, according to the U.S. District Judge presiding over the coordinated pretrial proceedings in Phoenix, Arizona. Judge Campbell ruled that the first “bellwether” trial will probably go before a jury in fall of 2017. Since that date is a year away, more likely…
If there was ever a medical device that was rushed to market and continued to be marketed after the company knew that the device was defective, look no further. Bard and other Inferior Vena Cava filter device makers are under fire for selling a grossly defective medical device that is…
Ava Langford from Missouri, has filed a lawsuit claiming that she developed serious and severe personal injuries when a Bard G2 inferior vena cava (IVC) filter fractured and broke apart. Langford filed her complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, alleging that a Bard G2…
The truth is that thousands of people have been severely injured by the side effects of these medical devices. And shockingly the injuries were avoidable simply enough by the timely and diligent removal of these temporary devices. Every year, thousands of patients are implanted with a retrieval inferior vena cava…
Lawsuits filed against Cook Medical over their defective IVC filters are gaining traction and moving towards trial. U.S. District Judge Young is overseeing the federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) and has announced that a group of 10 Cook Medical inferior vena cava (IVC) filter lawsuits have been chosen for early trial…
As a Dallas personal injury attorney and Texas medical doctor, I am highlighting the risks associated with retrieval inferior vena cava filters. Every year, thousands of patients are implanted with a retrieval inferior vena cava filters (IVC) but they are not warned by doctors about the risk of injury from…
According to a recent ruling by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML), all filed Bard Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) filter injury, perforation and migration lawsuits, are to be consolidated and centralized before one federal judge in Phoenix, Arizona for coordinated pretrial proceedings. Existing cases pending throughout the federal…
There are at least 27 Cook Celect IVC filter or Cook Gunther Tulip IVC filter lawsuits filed nationally in different U.S. District Courts. The plaintiffs have similar allegations that the medical devices were defectively designed and caused patients to be injured after receiving the filters. What is the Cook Celect?…
Our law firm recently filed a product liability lawsuit against C.R. Bard, which claims that one of the company’s IVC (inferior vena cava, is a major vein that runs the length of the body from the heart down to the leg) filters failed. The Bard IVC filter has cut into…