Federal Appellate Court Rules IVC Filter Claim Filed Too Late
December 8, 2024
Jessica Gehner was implanted with a Cook Medical inferior vena cava (IVC) filter in Ohio. She later developed abdominal pain, and a March 2013 CT scan revealed that the filter had perforated her IVC. Gehner’s doctors believed that the filter was compressing her small bowel, causing her pain, and r[...]
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Cook Medical Facing More Than 500 IVC Filter Claims
June 27, 2016
Cook Medical, a large Indiana-based medical device supplier in the United States, is facing more than 500 medical device claims filed against it with regard to its inferior vena cava (IVC) filters, which are small, cage-like medical devices that are implanted in patients to prevent blood clots from [...]
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Bard IVC Filter Case Filed In Missouri
November 19, 2015
On September 28, 2015, the widow of a man who died allegedly due to a defective Bard G2 IVC filter filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of her husband’s estate and on her own behalf against C.R. Bard, Inc. and Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of [...]
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