On Friday, February 1, 2019, an Indiana federal jury awarded a plaintiff $3 million in compensatory damages in a bellwether Cook Medical IVC filter case after determining that the device was defectively designed. The verdict was handed down in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana with Judge Richard Young presiding. A...
Today, a federal jury awarded $3.6 million to Sherr-Una Booker who argued she was harmed by an inferior vena cava (IVC) filter manufactured by C.R. Bard Inc. that broke apart in her body. The verdict included $1.6 in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages. This case was the first bellwether trial in the...
The first bellwether trial in the C.R. Bard Inc. inferior vena cava (IVC) filter multidistrict litigation (“MDL”) is currently under way in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona (In Re: Bard IVC Filters Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 2641, No. 15-2641, Sherr-Una Booker v. C.R. Bard, Inc., et al., No. 16-474,...
