August 18, 2015 — Federal judges have centralized 22 lawsuits involving C.R. Bard IVC filters into a Multi-District Litigation (MDL No. 2641) in Arizona under U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell.
August 10, 2015 — A new study has linked Cook Medical’s Celect IVC filter with a 43% rate of vena cava perforation, compared to a 0% rate for the Option filter made by Rex Medical.
July 23, 2015 — The FDA has sent a warning letter to C.R. Bard after finding numerous violations related to IVC filters, including misclassifying serious injuries and deaths as “device malfunctions.”
July 6, 2015 — Nearly 100 federal lawsuits have been filed against Cook Medical Inc. by people who were injured by IVC filters, such as the Günther Tulip and Celect.
April 30, 2015 — Patients at risk of a blood clots might not benefit if they are implanted with a retrievable inferior vena cava (IVC) filter instead of taking a blood-thinner alone, according to a study published in JAMA.
February 13, 2015 — After six days of trial, a confidential settlement has been reached between C.R. Bard and a man who had to have open heart surgery after he was severely injured by the Recovery IVC filter.
October 15, 2014 — Dozens of lawsuits involving Cook Medical IVC filters have been centralized in a federal Multi-District Litigation (MDL) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.
November 15, 2013 — A woman from Illinois has filed a lawsuit after her Bard G2 IVC filter fractured. Pieces of the filter migrated to her heart and lungs. Although she underwent emergency open-heart surgery, pieces of the IVC filter remain in her lungs because they were too dangerous to remove.
June 6, 2013 — A man from Illinois has filed a lawsuit after his Bard Recovery IVC filter migrated to his heart. He required emergency open-heart surgery and still suffers from devastating complications.
March 21, 2013 — The Journal of the American Medical Association has published an editorial titled “How could a medical device be so well accepted without any evidence of efficacy?”, one study that shows wide variation in how IVC filters are used, and another study that recommends against using IVC filters due to the low retrieval rate and high risk of blood clots.
August 28, 2012 — A new study has found that the IVC filter does not reduce mortality for most people who have a pulmonary embolism.
August 8, 2010 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a Safety Communication after receiving 921 adverse event reports related to the Bard IVC filters.
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