ROBINSON v. DAVOL INC.

No. 17-2068.

913 F.3d 690 (2019)

Charlotte ROBINSON and Bobby Don Bowersock as co-personal representatives of the Estate of Georgia J. Bowersock, deceased, and Mark Bowersock, individually, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. DAVOL INC. and C.R. Bard, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 22, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert T. Dassow , William F. Eckhart , Attorneys, Hovde, Dassow & Deets, Indianapolis, IN, Susanne N. Scovern , Attorney, Scovern Law, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Michael Kevin Brown , Attorney, Reed Smith LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Kathleen A. DeLaney , Attorney, Delaney & Delaney LLC, Indianapolis, IN, James Christopher Martin, Attorney, Reed Smith LLP, Pittsburgh, PA, Michael Patrick Yingling , Attorney, Reed Smith LLP, Chicago, IL, Eric L. Alexander , Attorney, Reed Smith LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Sykes and Barrett, Circuit Judges, and Griesbach, Chief District Judge.


C.R. Bard, Inc., manufactures a surgical mesh patch used to repair hernias by implantation. The patch consists of two pieces of mesh that surround a flexible plastic ring. During a hernia repair, the patch is folded to fit through a small incision, then the plastic ring springs back into its original shape and flattens the...

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