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In re: C. R. Bard, Inc., Pelvic Repair System Products Liability Litigation

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Case overview

Case Number:

2:10-md-02187

Court:

West Virginia Southern

Nature of Suit:

Personal Inj. Prod. Liability

Multi Party Litigation:

Class Action, Multi-district Litigation

Judge:

Joseph R. Goodwin

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  1. December 08, 2014

    Plaintiffs' Expert In CR Bard Pelvic Mesh MDL Disqualified

    A West Virginia magistrate judge on Monday disqualified an expert witness from testifying for the plaintiffs in pelvic mesh multidistrict litigation targeting C.R. Bard Inc., finding that while testifying for the device maker in previous litigation he'd had access to confidential attorney work product and was now "blatantly" trying to switch sides.

  2. November 25, 2014

    CR Bard Pelvic Mesh MDL Plaintiffs Want Suits Combined

    The plaintiffs in pelvic mesh multidistrict litigation targeting C.R. Bard Inc. pressed a West Virginia federal judge Monday to consolidate 185 individual cases for an upcoming trial in January, saying that the cases are sufficiently similar and that individual trials would subject them to an unfair burden.

  3. November 03, 2014

    Expert In Pelvic Mesh MDL Shouldn't Be DQ'd, Plaintiffs Say

    The plaintiffs in pelvic mesh multidistrict litigation told a West Virginia federal judge Monday that an expert who testified for C.R. Bard Inc. in previous litigation shouldn't be disqualified from testifying for them, arguing that he never received any confidential information from the device maker.

  4. October 22, 2014

    Bard Says Expert Can't Switch Sides In Pelvic Mesh MDL

    C.R. Bard Inc. argued Tuesday that the plaintiffs in pelvic mesh multidistrict litigation consolidated in West Virginia federal court should not be allowed to name as an expert one of Bard's own retained experts, saying that he is familiar with Bard's litigation strategy from his role in prior cases.

  5. October 21, 2013

    $2M Verdict Stands In Bard Vaginal Mesh Bellwether

    C.R. Bard Inc. failed to erase a $2 million verdict Friday in the first federal suit to go to trial over alleged defects in its vaginal mesh implants when the West Virginia judge overseeing a huge multidistrict litigation said the jury's findings were sufficiently grounded in evidence.

  6. August 15, 2013

    Bard Hit With $2M Verdict In Vaginal Mesh Bellwether

    A West Virginia federal jury on Thursday found C.R. Bard Inc. liable for injuries a woman allegedly suffered from a defective vaginal mesh implant, returning a $2 million verdict in a bellwether trial of vast multidistrict litigation.

  7. July 11, 2013

    Bellwether Bard Case Ends In Mistrial For Improper Testimony

    A bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation against C.R. Bard Inc. over injuries allegedly caused by the company's vaginal mesh products ended in a mistrial Wednesday in West Virginia federal court, after a witness entered improper testimony regarding the removal of the products from the U.S. market.

  8. June 06, 2013

    Bard Limits Plaintiffs' Expert Testimony In Vaginal Mesh MDL

    A West Virginia federal judge on Tuesday excluded or limited the testimony of the plaintiffs' experts targeted by C.R. Bard Inc. in four bellwether cases in multidistrict litigation over injuries allegedly caused by the company's vaginal mesh products.

  9. January 23, 2012

    CR Bard, Others Face Onslaught Of Surgical Mesh Suits

    A slew of patients hit medical device makers from C.R. Bard Inc. to Covidien Inc. with several lawsuits Monday as part of multidistrict ligitation in West Virginia, accusing them of manufacturing mesh surgical products for stress urinary incontinence that caused severe damage and pain.