COOK IVC Filters MDL 2570 Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation (USDC SD Indiana)

IVC FILTER LITIGATION vs. THE COOK GROUP, et al   

The Cook Medical IVC MDL 2570, case no. 14-ml-2570, became effective October 15, 2014 when transferred to the US District Court, Southern District of Indiana, assigned to Judge Robert L. Young and involves Cook Group, Inc., Cook Medical, Inc., and William Cook Europe, ApS and its Gunther Tulip and Celect product lines of Inferior Vena Cava Filters (IVC) that plaintiffs allege cause major injuries and death due to failure of the IVC filters which are intended to prevent pulmonary emboli and IVC filter placement is most commonly indicated for deep venous thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE) when anticoagulation therapy is contraindicated when the filter is placed within the Inferior Vena Cava, the large vein that carries deoxygenated blood from the lower and middle body into the right atrium of the heart.  

COOK IVC FILTER COMPLICATIONS

In post surgical complications the filters degrade and fracture causing particles of metals to enter the bloodstream and cause death and/or catastrophic injuries to internal organs. They also tend to tilt, perforate the Inferior Vena Cava and migrate to to other areas of the body. Cook knew of these adverse events during development and subsequent marketing of the Tulip and Celect IVC Filters to medical professionals, yet failed to disclose to either the FDA or the medical industry that the filters were prone to failure and the adverse events were resulting in severe injuries up to and including death. Revision surgeries are required to remove the failed filters and due to the age and complex medical conditions of many of the IVC filter recipients, and often, patients are designated "inoperable" due to the spread of filter pieces throughout the body, and these patients are now  considered "the highest verdicts cases", which places an extreme burden on the patients and their families. Cook and other IVC filter manufacturers are still offering many of the failing filters for sale and use in surgical procedures around the world and this MDL is just one of several IVC Filter MDL's currently taking place.