Due to a failure to warn doctors and patients of the complications of IVC filter usage, Houston firefighter Jeffrey Pavlock was awarded $1.2 million in a jury verdict against Cook Medical after ...

A federal jury in Arizona's verdict included $2 million in punitive damages against the makers of an implanted blood filter that broke apart and left fragments in a woman's heart and lodged in her ...

Medical device product liability litigation can take a number of seemingly unique twists and turns, but the case of Nelson v. Bard took a path that might have been predicted based on FDA-mandated ...

The Bard Recovery IVC Blood Clot Filter is designed to stop clots from traveling to organs like the heart and lungs. Martin Baughman / Martin Baughman A federal jury in Dallas found that C.R. Bard Inc ...

Aug 28 (Reuters) - Plaintiffs' lawyers who have agreed to pay a small share of their fees to the leaders of big, multidistrict litigation must abide by those deals even if they settle cases outside of ...

The treatment of choice for proximal venous thrombosis is anticoagulation. In situations where anticoagulation is absolutely contraindicated or when anticoagulation has failed in the face of an acute ...

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- A year-long investigation by NBC Nightly News has raised serious questions about why medical device manufacturer C.R. Bard, Inc. continued to sell and ...

Two specific types of vena cava filters, devices used to prevent blood clots from reaching the lungs, appear to have evidence of fracturing inside the body, with some fractured fragments traveling to ...