Inferior Vena Cava filters (IVC filters) have been the subject of hundreds of lawsuits in the United States and two safety communications from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)....
The bellwether selection process for Cook Medical’s IVC filter lawsuits has been heated and highly contested for weeks now, but a judge has finally selected the first bellwether cases....
With more than 400 cases on file in the Cook Medical IVC Filter multidistrict litigation, plaintiffs’ lawyers and the defense are struggling to select bellwether cases for the upcoming...
A woman recently filed a wrongful death lawsuit against C.R. Bard concerning the company’s Inferior Vena Cava filters (IVC filters). The woman’s husband had one of Bard’s G2 IVC...
A South Dakota woman has filed a lawsuit against C.R. Bard after her Eclipse IVC filter failed, causing her health complications. The woman claims Bard failed to warn her...
A Texas man joins hundreds of other plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Cook Medical for the company’s defective IVC filters. The man received Cook’s retrievable Günther Tulip IVC filter...
Boston Scientific is now facing a lawsuit from a woman who alleges the company’s IVC filters are defective. The woman had an IVC filter implanted in May 2005 after...
A New Jersey woman has joined over 600 other plaintiffs in a lawsuit against C.R. Bard for its defective IVC filters. The woman had a Meridian IVC filters implanted...
Four years ago, lawsuits against Cook Medical for their IVC filters were filed without causing much of a stir. Today the company is facing over 500 lawsuits, making IVC...
For hundreds of patients whose removal of defective IVC filters are considered too risky, a new removal technique might finally provide relief. The new removal technique is called laser...