A new complaint has been added to the growing IVC filter MDL reporting details about a patient’s experience with a Recovery vena cava filter.

The Recovery vena cava filter, much like other IVC devices, is intended to be retrievable from inside a patient’s body after the risk of blood clots has passed. However, shortly after these medical devices came on the market, the FDA began collecting complaints about complications and failures. Thousands of complaints have now been filed with the FDA by patients.

An MDL is often set up when a number of different plaintiffs have similar allegations against a company, allowing one court to process these similar claims together. The Bard IVC filter’s MDL includes complaints from patients across the country who say they had adverse experiences after receiving the Bard IVC filter they thought would help them.

The most recent Recovery vena cava filter claim added to the MDL is filed by plaintiffs Christian and Margaret K., who allege that Christian suffered excessive and unexpected complications after being implanted with a Recovery Vena Cava Filter. Margaret joins the IVC filter lawsuit with a claim for loss of consortium.

The Recovery vena cava filter lawsuit has been filed against defendant C.R. Bard and Bard Peripheral Vascular Inc. regarding an implantation of the Recovery vena cava filter that occurred in May 2015.

The most recent Recovery vena cava filter lawsuit claim is filed on numerous grounds including negligence in manufacturing, negligence in design, design defects, negligent misrepresentation, failure to warn, breach of express and implied warranty, fraudulent concealment, and fraudulent misrepresentation.

Many of the legal claims inside the consolidated Recovery vena cava filter lawsuit relate to serious injuries the patients sustained and unexplained side effects experienced by those patients after having the device implanted.

An inferior vena cava filter is designed to prevent life threatening pulmonary emboli. However, a growing number of patients are reporting problems with their Recovery vena cava filter.

Many of the problems connected to Recovery vena cava filter lawsuits have to do with claims of chronic pain, organ damage and bleeding. Patients have even reported difficulty when returning to their physician to have the vena cava filter removed from their body due to device breakdown and migration.

One of the problems reported by recipients of the IVC filters like those manufactured by Bard includes issues with the filter floating away from their site positioned during surgery, rendering them useless.

Other complaints surround the dangers of the device breaking into pieces and traveling through the patient’s bloodstream. Retrievable filters have also been named in complaints about failing to stop blood clots from bypassing that device, putting the patient in danger of life-threatening injuries.

Patients who experience unexpected side effects might be living with complications caused by the IVC filter itself. A malfunctioning or defective IVC filter, especially when given to a patient without an appropriate warning, can cause life-threatening issues.

The Recovery Vena Cava Filter Lawsuit is Case No. 2:18-cv-02969-DGC; filed in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.