BD (Becton Dickinson and Company) has announced an agreement under which it will acquire C.R. Bard, Inc., according to an April 23 press release. Bard has a medical division facility in ...

Bard's parent company agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits involving more than 30 of its hernia mesh repair products. The settlement with Becton, Dickinson and Co., or BD, resolves nearly 25,000 ...

Multiple medical device manufacturers faced lawsuits in the past ... its line of hernia repair devices as of March 2023. In 2022, a jury ordered BD’s C.R. Bard subsidiary to pay $4.8 million to a ...

In 2020, BD agreed to pay $60 million to 48 U.S. states to resolve allegations that its C.R. Bard business deceptively ... All implantable medical devices carry inherent risks and provide ...