Tag: ivc filter
Ohio Woman Files IVC Vein Filter Lawsuit
Lawsuits accuse Cook Medical of downplaying severe side effects of IVC filters, failing to study them for safety, and aggressively promoting wider uses without adequate evidence they actually worked.
B. Braun IVC Filter Lawsuit Filed in Pennsylvania
A man who was implanted with a VenaTech® IVC filter to prevent blood clots in his lungs filed a lawsuit against B. Braun Medical after blood clots were discovered in his lungs just 1 year later.
Vena Tech IVC Filter Lawsuit Filed Against B. Braun
A man from New York who required emergency heart surgery when his Vena Tech® IVC filter broke within 10 days has filed a lawsuit against B. Braun.
Texas Man Files Celect® IVC Filter Lawsuit
Studies published as early as 2007 warned that the Celect IVC Filter has dangerously-designed wire legs that frequently puncture the patient's vein within less than 2 months — and sometimes within days.
Texas Woman Files Blood Clot Filter Lawsuit
Blood clot filters are implanted in the inferior vena cava (IVC) to prevent life-threatening health problems. Instead, thousands of people have been severely injured or died of IVC Filter side effects. Over 4,000 lawsuits accuse manufacturers of selling dangerously defective...
Mississippi Woman Files IVC Filter Lawsuit
C.R. Bard sold 160,000 G2® IVC filters before pulling them off the market without a recall in 2010. A few years later, studies confirmed that nearly 40% will fracture within 5 years — a similar risk linked to the previous...
Texas Woman Files IVC Filter Lawsuit
C.R. Bard sold 160,000 of the G2® IVC Filters before pulling it off the market in 2010. Studies now estimate that 38% fracture within 5 years. Around 2,000 injury lawsuits have been filed nationwide.
Blood Clot Filter Injury Lawsuit Filed by Pennsylvania Man
A growing number of lawsuits have been filed by people who were injured by serious complications of Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) Filters, such as blood clots, tilting, fracture, migration, and vein perforation.
Kentucky Man Files IVC Filter Lawsuit
Cook Medical is facing around 2,000 lawsuits for allegedly downplaying IVC filter side effects like tilting, migration, vein perforation, fracture and embolization of broken pieces, and more.
Minnesota Man Files IVC Filter Lawsuit
A man with an IVC filter permanently embedded in his body has filed a lawsuit accusing Cook Medical of falsely advertising the Gunther Tulip as a "retrievable" filter, when in reality it is often impossible to remove.