In May, a Portland jury awarded $926,000 to a plaintiff in an IVC filter case against Bard Peripheral Vascular and C.R. Bard, Inc. 38-year-old Justin Peterson was wounded when a Bard Eclipse IVC filter perforated his vena cava and duodenum. The injury caused massive bleeding and required open abdominal surgery to remove the filter and fix the damaged blood vessel and small intestine.
Peterson initially received the filter after his deep vein thrombosis (DVT) diagnosis in 2010. In 2015, he experienced severe bleeding as well as lightheadedness and abdominal symptoms, all of which were caused by the filter puncturing his duodenum. His wife immediately took him to the hospital where surgery was then performed.
The eight-person jury unanimously agreed that Bard was guilty of negligently designing the filter and failing to warn doctors about the defective device. The filter first appeared on the market in 2010 as a replacement device for Bard’s second generation G2 and G2X filters, which were pulled from shelves.
Other Problems with IVC Filters
Over the years, multiple problems have been associated with the IVC filters, including practice, migration, and perforation. Bard was also the defendant in an 8000-person MDL that came to a close in 2019. Peterson’s case is the first to be tried since then, with hundreds of remanded cases on file across the country and many already set for trial.
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Tracy Everhart
Tracy Everhart is the Editor for Drug Law Journal. A highly-trained and certified medical professional, Tracy is also an accomplished medical writer. After spending years on the front lines of the medical profession, Tracy now devotes her expertise and skills to researching and reporting on new drugs and devices that enter the market, as well as their side-effects and the real-life stories involved. Prior to joining Drug Law Journal, Tracy wrote for benchmark online healthcare resources focused on families and, in particular, women’s health issues. Tracy holds post-graduate degrees from both the American College of Healthcare Sciences and the Yale School of Nursing. She is also a graduate of both Hampshire College, where she studied microbiology and the University of South Carolina school of nursing.