A Texas woman joins nearly 1,000 other patients in their fight to hold Cook Medical responsible for producing defective IVC filters. The woman had a Cook Celect IVC filter...
Every year, approximately 250,000 IVC filters are implanted in patients, but an alarming number of these devices are not removed from patients in time, causing additional complications. However, a...
The laws regarding the reporting of potentially defective medical devices are spotty at best. Doctors themselves are not required to report adverse events to the FDA. Their participation is...
Plaintiffs in the Cook Medical IVC Filter litigation have waited a long time for a resolution of their cases, but it appears they will have to wait just a...
C.R. Bard faces more than 1,000 IVC filter lawsuits centralized in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. Judge David G. Campbell, who is presiding over the...
Inferior Vena Cava filters (IVC filters) are designed to reduce a patient’s risk of complications from blood clots, but for some patients the filters themselves provide the greatest risk...
As an increasing number of patients experience complications with retrievable IVC filters, doctors are faced with a new challenge: how to remove the defective devices. The devices should be...
A California woman filed a lawsuit against Cook Medical after one of the company’s IVC filters fractured inside her body, causing pieces of the device to get lodged in...
C.R. Bard faces an increasing number of lawsuits alleging its inferior vena cava filters (IVC filters) are defective and the company failed to warn patients and doctors of the...
The controversy surrounding IVC filters in the U.S. has been mounting for some time, and now our neighbors to the north have joined in the fight to hold IVC...
