Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller announced a settlement by 48 states and the District of Columbia with C.R. Bard Inc. and its parent company Becton, Dickinson and Co., requiring payment of $60 million for the deceptive marketing of transvaginal surgical mesh devices. Miller and the attorneys general allege that the company violated state consumer protection laws by misrepresenting the safety and effectiveness of the devices and failing to sufficiently disclose risks associated with their use, according to a petition filed today in Polk County District Court. Iowa will receive $809,827 under the settlement. “Women suffered serious complications, and in some cases permanent injury, after surgeons implanted these devices,” Miller said in a statement. “Yet C.R. Bard failed to disclose these risks to doctors and patients.” Thousands of women implanted with surgical mesh have made claims that they suffered serious complications resulting from these devices. In October 2019, Miller and other attorneys general reached a $116.9 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Ethicon Inc. over their deceptive marketing of transvaginal surgical mesh devices.