IN RE C.R. BARD, INC.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Elliot H. Scherker , Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Miami, Florida, for Appellant/Cross-Appellee. Anthony J. Majestro , Powell & Majestro, PLLC, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellees/Cross-Appellants. Julie Adams Jacobs , Office Of The Attorney General Of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, for Intervenor. ON BRIEF: Lori G. Cohen , R. Clifton Merrell, II , Sean P. Jessee , Atlanta, Georgia, Daniel I.A. Smulian , Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New York, New York; Brigid F. Cech Samole , Jay A. Yagoda , Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Miami, Florida; Melissa Foster Bird , Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, Huntington, West Virginia, for Appellant/Cross-Appellee. Allison Van Laningham , Turning Point Litigation, Greensboro, North Carolina; Henry G. Garrard, III , Josh B. Wages , Blasingame, Burch, Garrard, Ashley PC, Athens, Georgia, for Appellees/Cross-Appellants. Samuel S. Olens , Attorney General, W. Wright Banks, Jr. , Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, for Intervenor. Debra Tedeschi Varner , McNeer, Highland, McMunn & Varner LC, Clarksburg, West Virginia; Stacy A. Broman , Meagher & Geer PLLP, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for Amicus Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel. Chilton Davis Varner , Stephen B. Devereaux , Madison H. Kitchens , Atlanta, Georgia, Jeffrey S. Bucholtz , Paul Alessio Mezzina , King & Spalding LLP, Washington, D.C., for Amici Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc. and Chamber of Commerce of the United States; Hugh F. Young, Jr. , Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., Reston, Virginia, for Amicus Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc.; Kathryn Comerford Todd , Sheldon Gilbert , National Chamber Litigation Center, Inc., Washington, D.C., for Amicus Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Douglas B. King , Wooden & McLaughlin LLP, Indianapolis, Indiana, for Amici Cook Incorporated, Cook Medical LLC, and Cook Biotech Incorporated. Michael J. Quirk , Esther E. Berezofsky , Joseph Alan Venti , Williams Cuker Berezofsky, LLC, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Amici Public Justice, P.C., and National Center for Health Research.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge GREGORY wrote the opinion, in which Judge AGEE and Judge DIAZ joined.