July 30, 2024
The Seventh Circuit on Tuesday upheld Cook Medical LLC's win in a woman's lawsuit claiming the company's inferior vena cava filter caused her to develop abdominal pain and that the device fractured when it was removed, saying the suit was filed after the statute of limitations had expired.
August 12, 2021
An Indiana federal judge has thrown out a suit alleging a Michigan man was implanted with a faulty inferior vena cava filter made by Cook Medical LLC, saying the suit was filed after the statute of limitations had expired.
October 27, 2020
The Indiana federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation over alleged defects in Cook Medical Inc.'s vein filters has asked the company and the plaintiffs' steering committee to narrow down a list of possible bellwether cases, after the three previous bellwethers ended before trial.
July 01, 2020
Cook Medical Inc. told an Indiana federal judge on Tuesday that a national injury law firm has filed a host of "no-injury" cases, including the bellwether in the multidistrict litigation over allegedly defective vein filters.
June 22, 2020
Fraud claims against Cook Medical Inc. and associates are too vague, can't be proven and should be dropped from multidistrict litigation alleging the company's vein filters injured patients, Cook has told an Indiana federal court.
January 10, 2020
An Indiana federal judge has ordered a new trial in a bellwether suit alleging Cook Medical Inc.'s inferior vena cava filters are defective and lead to injury and death, undoing a $3 million verdict the plaintiff won in February.
February 04, 2019
An Indiana federal jury on Friday awarded a woman $3 million in the third bellwether case in multidistrict litigation alleging Cook Medical Inc.'s vein filters injured patients, finding the defectiveness of the company's product was the reason for the woman's injury.
December 07, 2018
An Indiana judge has granted Cook Medical Inc. summary judgment on most counts in the third bellwether case in multidistrict litigation alleging the company's vein filters injured patients, ruling that the physician who implanted the filter was aware of the risks and would not have treated his patient differently even after learning of her subsequent injuries.
October 17, 2016
An Indiana federal judge on Monday selected Cook Medical Inc.'s pick for the second bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation brought by patients alleging they were injured by the company's vein filters, holding that the suit is more representative of the injuries and issues alleged than the other option.
September 30, 2016
Patients in multidistrict litigation alleging they were injured by Celect vein filters made by Cook Medical Inc. urged an Indiana federal court Friday to reject the company's bid to select the second bellwether case in a row, saying Cook's second pick is too similar to the first.