IVC Filters News

Indiana federal Judge Richard Young recently approved Cook Medical Inc.’s pick for the second bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation (MDL) brought by plaintiffs alleging that they were injured by the company’s IVC filters. In July, Judge Young identified three trial plaintiffs and types of filter […]

Cook IVC Filter Litigation The first inferior vena cava (IVC) filter lawsuits against Cook Medical will be tried as bellwether cases next month, and may set the tone for similar cases filed against C.R. Bard that will begin in mid-2017. The Cook IVC multidistrict litigation […]

On July 19, U.S. District Judge Richard Young issued an order naming three bellwether trial plaintiffs that will be tried in 2017. Over 650 federal IVC filter lawsuits filed against Cook Medical have been centralized in MDL 2570. According to an order signed by Judge […]

According to a Kaiser Permanente study, IVC filter fracture complications four or more years after insertion are “relatively common,” occurring 37.5 percent of the time for Cordis Optese and 23.1 percent for Trapease filters. The study reviewed all IVC filters implanted in patients from January […]

While nearly 400 inferior vena cava (IVC) filter lawsuits are currently pending in the U.S., two class action IVC filter lawsuits have now been filed in Canada as well. Cook Medical and C.R. Bard, Inc., the manufacturers of the largest share of IVC filters, face […]

Recently, concerns have been raised about the safety and effectiveness of rIVCfs, and numerous product liability lawsuits have been filed. These cases make allegations of rIVCfs becoming embedded inside patients’ internal organs, prompting additional surgery and raising the risk of complications. IVC filters are removed […]

The placement of IVC Filters (inferior vena cava filters) without subsequent retrieval may be one of the main reasons that IVC thrombosis is on the rise, according to MedPage Today. It is estimated that IVC thrombosis accounts for 2.6 to 4.0 percent of deep vein […]

A Medicare study has found that the use of inferior vena cava filter (IVC filter) for the prevention of pulmonary embolism (PE) increased somewhat between 1999 and 2010, despite questions regarding clinical benefit. During that period of time, as PE-related hospitalizations rose, so did the […]

The parties to the Cook IVC filter lawsuits are now in the process of selecting cases that will go into a discovery pool and from this pool, four cases will be chosen for bellwether trials. These early trials are conducted to help the parties determine […]

An IVC filter lawsuit recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Maryland alleges that the plaintiffs Greenfield IVC filter device failed.   The device received sometime prior to 2004 migrated migrated away from the original point of insertion and perforated […]

A recent study published in the June 2015 Journal of Vascular Interventional Radiology has revealed that the Cook Celect IVC had a 43 percent rate of perforation as compared with the Option filter, which had a zero percent perforation rate. In conducting the study, researchers […]

Since the introduction of the inferior vena cava filter (IVC filter) in 2005, the FDA has received thousands of adverse reports involving these filters. TruLaw is talking to individuals that believe they were harmed as a result of IVC filter fracture, migration, embolization or perforation. […]