A $1.6 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages were awarded on Friday to a woman who said a Bard G2 filter (a clot-stopping vein filter), manufactured by C.R. Bard Inc., broke apart in her body, finding the device maker responsible for 80 percent of the harm. Joe Johnson was one of … Read More
IVC filter lawyer Joe Johnson was interviewed by 41 Action News – KSHB-TV investigator Jessica McMaster in the segment titled, “Medical device used to filter blood clots blamed for deaths and injuries.” The piece focused on Joe Johnson’s client, an Overland Park, Kansas woman who filed a lawsuit alleging her husband’s life-saving blood clot filter device … Read More
The recent NBCNews.com article, Why Did Firm Keep Selling Problem Blood-Clot Filters? covers C.R. Bard, a company that made IVC Recovery blood-clot filters, which was associated with 27 deaths. The IVC Filter devices were made to help prevent blood clots from going to the heart and lungs. The article stated: “Confidential company records obtained by … Read More
Attorney Joe Johnson was recently interviewed on NBC affiliate WPTV in Palm Beach, Florida about the potentially dangerous complications associated with blood clot filters called Inferior Vena Cava filters (also called IVC filters). The story titled, “FDA warns of potentially deadly complications associated with blood clot filter implants” starts with Johnson’s client, a South Florida woman … Read More
As seen on NBC Nightly News, manufacturers like C.R. Bard may be downplaying the risks of their IVC Filter devices. Patients may not be sufficiently warned about the risk of filter fracture, migration, punctured organs, clotting and death. NBC News investigates the safety of a medical device that was designed to help save Dodi Froehlich’s … Read More
