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• Bard PowerPort Bellwether Trial Selections To Be Made in Late April 2025

  March 26, 2025

  Irvin Jackson

  Parties have until April 28 to turn in a list of six Bard PowerPort lawsuits that should be prepared for bellwether trials.

• Smiths Medical Port Catheter Recall Issued Over Manufacturing Error

  March 20, 2025

  Michael Adams

  The Smiths Medical implantable port catheter’s housing can detach from the reservoir before, during or after implantation, which has resulted in at least two injuries linked to the devices.

• Schedule To Prepare Bard PowerPort Lawsuits for Bellwether Trials To Be Proposed by Parties

  February 27, 2025

  Irvin Jackson

  A federal judge has ordered lawyers involved in Bard PowerPort lawsuits to submit a joint proposal for preparing the first cases for bellwether trials by March 18.

• Bard PowerPort MDL Judge Allows More Time To Select Next Round of Bellwether Cases

  January 8, 2025

  Irvin Jackson

  Lawyers are currently completing discovery in a group of 15 Bard PowerPort lawsuits, which will then be narrowed down to six potential trial claims by mid-April 2025.

• Lawyers Identify 15 Bard PowerPort Injury Lawsuits for Next Phase of Bellwether Trial Discovery

  December 20, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  The Bard PowerPort lawsuits will go through additional fact specific discovery over the next few months, before the parties determine which six will serve best as early bellwether trials.

• Bard PowerPort Lawyers Will Update Judge on Status of Litigation at Case Management Conference

  December 3, 2024

  Russell Maas

  The judge presiding over all federal Bard PowerPort lawsuits will meet with lawyers today to review the status of pretrial proceedings and the selection of the next round of bellwether cases.

• Judge Declines To Extend Bard PowerPort Lawsuit Deadlines Under Discovery Schedule

  November 13, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  As parties prepare for early Bard PowerPort lawsuit bellwether trials, the court rejected a request to extend discovery deadlines by two months.

• Port Catheter Infection Lawsuits Over Bard PowerPort Devices Claim Faulty Design Promotes Colonization of Bacteria

  September 9, 2024

  Russell Maas

  Hundreds of currently pending Bard PowerPort lawsuits over infections, fractures and migration injuries were consolidated into a multidistrict litigation (MDL), but now even more claims present similar allegations that the implantable port catheter system has dangerous design defects that were not adequately disclosed by the manufacturer.

• Bard Faces Over 460 PowerPort Lawsuits Spread Between Federal MDL, New Jersey and Arizona State Courts

  August 23, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  The manufacturer now faces more than 460 Bard PowerPort lawsuits filed in both state and federal courts, claiming that the port catheter implants' defective design has led to numerous injuries, infections and the need for revision surgery to have them removed due to failures.

• Lawyers Have Selected 24 Bard PowerPort Lawsuits For Case-Specific Discovery in MDL

  July 9, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  Bellwether claims will be prepared for early trials to help gauge how juries may respond to evidence and testimony that will be repeated throughout more than 300 other Bard Power lawsuits currently pending in the federal court system.