C.R. Bard has reportedly reached an agreement to settle Kugel hernia mesh lawsuits brought by about 2,600 people who experienced severe internal injuries caused by problems with their hernia repair…
C.R. Bard has filed an appeal of the $1.5 million verdict returned by a Rhode Island jury in a Kugel hernia patch lawsuit, after the trial judge refused to overturn…
Federal regulators say that contamination levels in some XenMatrix Surgical Grafts could lead to serious and potentially fatal injuries if used on a patient.
Davol, a subsidiary of C.R. Bard, has announced that it is issuing a recall for XenMatrix, a hernia and abdominal surgical graft, due to a failure to meet the FDA’s…
The next two trial dates in the federal Kugel hernia patch litigation are scheduled to begin in May and July 2011, marking the third and fourth “bellwether” lawsuits to reach…
A Rhode Island jury has awarded a North Carolina couple $1.5 million in a Kugel hernia patch lawsuit, but the couple is objecting to the federal judge’s decision not to…
A federal judge has scheduled the third and fourth “bellwether” trials in the Kugel hernia patch litigation for November 2010 and January 2011, respectively.
The second “bellwether” trial in the Kugel hernia patch litigation is scheduled to begin later this summer, involving a case where the plaintiff suffered severe internal injuries from a broken…
A Rhode Island jury has returned a defense verdict in the first trial out of about 3,000 product liability lawsuits filed over the Composix Kugel hernia patch.
The first trial out of about 3,000 Kugel mesh lawsuits is set to begin today in federal court, involving allegations that a defective hernia patch caused a Missouri man to…