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Hernia Mesh Defendant C.R. Bard Indicates Support for MDL if Certain Conditions Are Met
On April 10, fifty-five of the nearly 100 plaintiffs who have filed lawsuits against medical device manufacturers C.R. Bard, Davol Inc., and BD Medical Technology filed a petition asking the court to centralize all cases into multidistrict litigation (MDL). In the filing, they specifically requested that the cases be heard before a U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri or Ohio's Southern District.
Covidien's Parietex Composite Mesh Cited as Cause of Action in New Hernia Mesh Lawsuit
In 2011, Covidien, a subsidiary of Medtronic, touted its ParietexTM Composite Ventral Patch as a “clinically proven collagen film technology to minimize visceral attachment...designed for optimal abdominal wall conformability in umbilical and small ventral hernia repair.” Six years later, a patient who had receive
History Repeats Itself: Hernia Mesh Lawsuits are Being Filed Nationwide
As the late baseball legend Yogi Berra reportedly said, “It's déjà vu all over again.”
Physicians are Rethinking the Hernia Mesh
As knowledge about the problems with the hernia mesh becomes more widespread, an increasing number of patients facing hernia surgery are doing their own due diligence and asking their surgeons about different solutions. The fact is that there are alternatives to the hernia mesh. Why aren't these alternatives more widely known?