Latest Updates about 3M™ Bair Hugger™ Therapy
April 20, 2016
This legal declaration from 3M details the long campaign by competitor Scott Augustine to disparage the 3M Bair Hugger warming system. Read the filing here.
April 10, 2016
A trauma center at a Dallas hospital reduced average times that patients suffered lower body temperatures by using the 3M™ Bair Hugger™ warming system more frequently. This story details improvements at Parkland Memorial Hospital, which trained its trauma staff to use the warming system more frequently. Abnormal body temperature is an independent predictor of death in trauma. While patient warming systems are used widely in emergency rooms, […]
December 20, 2015
December 2015 A five-member panel consolidated a group of lawsuits against 3M Company and the 3M Bair Hugger Warming System in to a Multi-District Litigation in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. In supporting the decision, 3M said it is “now convinced that consolidation of this litigation in an MDL in Minnesota will provide the fastest and most efficient means of vindicating their […]
August 17, 2021
August 17, 2021 The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2018 jury verdict in favor of 3M in Gareis – the only case involving the 3M™ Bair Hugger™ system that has gone to trial. As the Court of Appeals noted: “The jury returned a special verdict for 3M, finding that the Gareises failed to prove both that the Bair Hugger was defectively designed and that […]
October 14, 2022
On Oct. 13, 2022, an Independence, Missouri, state court jury returned a verdict in favor of 3M in the second Bair Hugger trial. 3M has now successfully defended the 3M Bair Hugger™ warming system in the two cases that have gone before a jury. The jury, which heard evidence for two weeks, deliberated slightly more than two hours before deciding in favor of 3M. The verdict […]
June 19, 2024
On June 18, 2024, a Missouri state appellate court upheld 3M’s trial victory in O’Haver v. 3M. The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District unanimously rejected all nine arguments raised by the Plaintiff on appeal. O’Haver was one of two cases involving the Bair Hugger system that have gone to trial. 3M won both and appellate courts have now upheld both verdicts. Bill Childs, […]