A report created for a medical device manufacturer that was inadvertently handed over during discovery can’t be used by the plaintiff, a federal judge has ruled.
Cases across the country have been filed against C.R. Bard Inc., the New Jersey-based manufacturer of medical devices including the vascular filters at issue in the lawsuits, which prompted the company to commission a litigation consultation report. That report was accidentally included in discovery disclosures in some of the later litigation, according to the opinion issued by U.S. District Judge Lawrence F. Stengel of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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