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AnupdatefromourearlierpostaboutIVCfilters.Afteryearsoflitigation,severalthousandIVCfiltercasesagainstC.R.BardInc.,arecomingtoa ...

An update from our earlier post about IVC filters. After years of litigation, several thousand IVC filter cases against C.R. Bard Inc., are coming to a close.

For people living every day with a higher-than-normal risk of blood clots, Inferior Vena Cava filters, or IVC filters, seemed like a means to an end to their health risks—and their fears. Only to find, after undergoing major surgery, these IVC filters have failed them and created more problems than they originally had.

The Maher Law Firm, on behalf of our clients, is suing the manufacturers of certain IVC filters, including C. R. Bard Inc., and Cook. These IVC filters were supposed to catch any potential blood clots before the potentially deadly clots got into the heart and lungs. Instead, the filters are breaking, sending metal prongs throughout the body; they’re permanently lodging themselves in a patient’s IVC; they’re migrating to...