June 19, 2017
A West Virginia federal judge agreed Monday to toss dozens of suits against medical technologies manufacturer C.R. Bard Inc. in multidistrict litigation over injuries allegedly caused by pelvic mesh implants, saying all the claims have been "compromised and settled" for an undisclosed amount.
May 26, 2017
A West Virginia federal judge on Friday dismissed dozens of pelvic mesh cases against C.R. Bard Inc. after the New Jersey company reached settlements.
April 25, 2016
The West Virginia federal judge overseeing sprawling pelvic mesh multidistrict litigation on Monday said that several dozen women have agreed to end their suits against C.R. Bard Inc. alleging injuries from pelvic mesh implants.
February 03, 2016
A Philadelphia-based firm representing women in cases against C.R. Bard Inc. over allegedly defective pelvic mesh implants argued on Wednesday that six dozen of the suits should be transferred to Pennsylvania federal court since they're not about to be resolved in the sprawling multidistrict litigation in West Virginia.
January 06, 2016
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's view that certain transvaginal meshes are now high-risk medical devices that must meet strict safety assessments appears to support mesh implant patients in federal multidistrict litigation, but experts say defendants can still blunt its impact in the courtroom by trying to block juries from hearing about the development.
June 19, 2015
Hundreds of plaintiffs suing C.R. Bard Inc. and Ethicon Inc. over alleged injuries from pelvic mesh implants have asked that their cases be moved from a crowded West Virginia multidistrict litigation program into Pennsylvania federal court so that their claims can be dealt with more quickly.
March 12, 2015
A West Virginia federal judge on Thursday told plaintiffs in C.R. Bard Inc.'s pelvic mesh injury litigation consolidated in federal court that they were limited to three expert witnesses per case as previously ordered.
January 13, 2015
The West Virginia federal judge overseeing C.R. Bard Inc.'s pelvic mesh injury litigation has rejected the device maker's attempt to delay a February trial because of his widely publicized comments that the company, facing "potentially billions of dollars in verdicts," should settle.
January 07, 2015
C.R. Bard Inc. argued Wednesday that widely publicized comments in December by the West Virginia federal judge overseeing its pelvic mesh injury litigation that it should settle in the face of "potentially billions of dollars in verdicts" warrant delaying a trial scheduled for February.
December 09, 2014
C.R. Bard Inc. argued Monday that the plaintiffs seeking to consolidate dozens of suits over its pelvic mesh products for an upcoming trial are trying to create bias among the jury that "something must be wrong" with the devices if there are so many suits about them.