Medical Device Injury

An Illinois man alleges that Cook Medical designed and manufactures defective IVC filters and the one he was implanted with caused severe injuries. The plaintiff, David H., claims he was implanted with a Cook heart filter on July 23, 2007 in the Columbus Regional Hospital in Indiana. David says that Cook’s IVC filter presented an increased risk for […]

A Vermont man alleges in a lawsuit that the Proceed Surgical Mesh designed and manufactured by Ethicon and Johnson & Johnson is defective and resulted in severe injuries. Plaintiff Ronald O. says Proceed Surgical Mesh was used in his hernia surgery in August of 2012. However, due to mesh malfunction, the plaintiff had to undergo additional surgery

Medical device manufacturer C.R. Bard recently lost an opportunity to avoid IVC filter MDL lawsuits filed by patients and family members. The medical device company was looking to avoid multidistrict litigation from family members who alleged that their loved ones were killed or injured by the defective vascular filters. The IVC filter MDL was upheld

The Physiomesh device manufactured by Ethicon is the subject of a new Physiomesh injury lawsuit filed on behalf of patients who have suffered severe and life-changing injuries. Physiomesh was used for laparoscopic hernia repair among other medical conditions. It was frequently sold or implanted with a SecureStrap fixation device and led to critical injuries for

Thousands of Bard IVC filter lawsuits weathered a motion to dismiss after a federal judge rejected the medical device maker’s argument that the litigation was preempted by federal law. C.R. Bard was hit with thousands of lawsuits after patients and doctors complained of severe medical complications and side effects after being implanted with the company’s

Severe injuries as well as pain and suffering form the basis of a new hernia mesh injury lawsuit filed by an Indiana woman. The hernia mesh injury lawsuit filed by Marilee S. is just the latest in a string of suits filed against hernia mesh manufacturers for alleged defects. The product in question is made by

Fatal injuries have prompted an estate administrator to file a lawsuit against the manufacturers of the Cordis IVC filter. The Cordis IVC filter lawsuit alleges that Johnson & Johnson and its affiliated subsidiaries are responsible for failing to warn patients about the serious risks of this particular product. A surgical procedure involving the Cordis IVC filter occurred with the decedent

Bard’s Perfix mesh has been named in a new lawsuit on behalf of a Louisiana man who allegedly experienced significant injures. According the Bard Perfix lawsuit, the hernia mesh manufactured by this industry leader is unreasonably dangerous and toxic. Plaintiff Bruce B. claims that after receiving hernia repair surgery in which the Bard Perfix mesh was implanted,

A Tennessee woman is suing Cook Medical Inc. alleging a defective IVC filter caused her injuries. Plaintiff Lori B. alleges that she was implanted with the Cook Celect Vena Cava Filter in 2016 at a Nashville hospital. However, the Cook blood clot filter put her at an increased risk for severe medical complications and even

C.R. Bard, along with its subsidiary Davol Inc., was hit with a lawsuit alleging its Marlex Mesh caused a Pennsylvania woman to suffer from bowel injuries which required emergency surgery. Plaintiff Caroline I. alleges that she was implanted with Marlex Mesh in 2003 as a part of a repair for an incisional hernia. In 2015, the plaintiff

A legal complaint has been filed by a New York plaintiff, stipulating that manufacturer C.R. Bard Inc. is responsible for the injuries she sustained from a Bard Ventralix Hernia Patch. According to the lawsuit, the Bard Ventralix Hernia Patch was made of materials that are incompatible in a biological sense with human tissue, which can

A number of deaths and other reports of serious complications associated with the Recovery blood clot filter have raised questions about its safety, according to an investigation by NBC reporters. The C.R. Bard blood clot filter, the Recovery, has been identified in about 300 reports submitted to the government noting problems with the medical device,

A plaintiff from Arizona has joined the multidistrict litigation against medical device manufacturer Ethicon alleging a defective hernia mesh product caused medical expenses and injuries. According to the physiomesh lawsuit, plaintiff Gary E. was implanted with the mesh in Tucson, Ariz. in March of 2012. The physiomesh the plaintiff was implanted with is manufactured by

The wave of lawsuits over defective blood clot filters, implanted in the inferior vena cava — the body’s largest large vein which carries deoxygenated blood from the lower and middle body into the right atrium of the heart, don’t appear to be subsiding. In March, a federal lawsuit was filed against inferior vena cava (IVC) filter manufacturer B. Braun, and