Docket Nexus — Federal court records.
Company

C. R. Bard, Inc

Federal civil lawsuits naming C. R. Bard, Inc.

In this index, 28,733 federal civil lawsuits name a party recorded as C. R. Bard, Inc, most often as a defendant (28,688 of 28,733). These may be different parties who share the name; records here are grouped by name only. These cases are most often Product Liability and Real Property matters, filed between 1990 and 2026, most frequently in District Court, S.D. West Virginia. The most common causes of action are Product Liability, Personal Injury, and Patent Infringement.

Also recorded in dockets as: C R Bard Incorporated · Cr Bard · Cr Bard Inc · C R Bard · Cr Bard Incorporated · C R Bard Inc Corporation.

Corporate Family Part of the Becton Dickinson family — 41,065 cases across 5 affiliated entities.
28,733
Lawsuits
28,688
As Defendant
45
As Plaintiff
4,591
Open
24,142
Terminated
1990–2026
Span
2.6 yr
Median Duration
28,475 of these cases (99%) are Product Liability filings — large waves of near-identical suits consolidated into multidistrict litigation (MDL) proceedings. The totals and the year chart reflect that concentration, not typical caseload.
777 cases/yrNamed as defendant in 100% of cases99% Product LiabilityRecent filings down

Cases by State

AL — 77 casesAZ — 7,159 casesAR — 31 casesCA — 97 casesCO — 36 casesCT — 36 casesDE — 25 casesDC — 14 casesFL — 306 casesGA — 327 casesID — 3 casesIL — 113 casesIN — 32 casesIA — 23 casesKS — 32 casesKY — 44 casesLA — 66 casesME — 13 casesMD — 27 casesMA — 72 casesMI — 68 casesMN — 76 casesMS — 63 casesMO — 188 casesMT — 2 casesNE — 6 casesNV — 5 casesNH — 4 casesNJ — 175 casesNM — 11 casesNY — 181 casesNC — 49 casesND — 0 casesOH — 4,776 casesOK — 43 casesOR — 7 casesPA — 162 casesRI — 157 casesSC — 76 casesSD — 9 casesTN — 102 casesTX — 239 casesUT — 15 casesVT — 2 casesVA — 25 casesWA — 16 casesWV — 13,691 casesWI — 45 casesWY — 6 cases
AK · 1

Open Cases Over Time

1990peak 11,174 open2026

Case Types Over Time

19902026
Product LiabilityReal PropertyPatentContractCivil Rights

Filings by Year

19902026

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Product Liability28,475
Real Property68
Patent57
Contract54
Civil Rights26
Federal Tax / Statutory Actions15

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Corporate History

Related company names from the public corporate record. Cases are not transferred between these entities — each case remains filed against the company named on its docket, and the counts on each page reflect only that company.

  • C. R. Bard, Inc was acquired by Becton Dickinson and Company in 2017
    public corporate record: Becton Dickinson acquisition of C.R. Bard
    Both are already members of the becton-dickinson family; this records WHY, which the family membership alone does not say.
Clustered litigation · MDL 28,475 Product Liability member cases 99% of the caseload is a wave of near-identical suits consolidated into multidistrict litigation — grouped here rather than listed one by one. Browse all 28,475 member cases →

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