Published July 23, 2026
Becton Dickinson (BD), the parent company of C.R. Bard and Davol, announced in October 2024 that it would pay more than $1 billion to resolve the vast majority of its roughly 38,000 pending hernia mesh lawsuits. Since then, 2025 and 2026 have been mostly about building — and struggling with — the machinery to actually get people paid.
The settlement uses a points-based methodology that weighs injury severity, the number of follow-up surgeries, and lost wages. Orion Settlement Solutions was appointed to administer the qualified settlement fund, established in January 2025, while a separate firm, Archer, handles resolving Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, and VA liens against each payout. Reported payment tiers range from a fixed "quick-pay" option around $25,000 for straightforward cases, down to roughly $2,500 for claims where the mesh's role is unclear, up to well over $100,000 for the most severe, well-documented injuries — attorneys have estimated the average payout across all claims will land somewhere around $65,000 to $70,000.
Getting claims into the system hasn't been smooth. The Crosslink Portal, the designated platform for submitting medical records and supporting documentation, ran into ongoing technical issues, and the original March 17, 2025 filing deadline had to be extended by several months as a result.
As of mid-2026, tens of thousands of claims remain in the pipeline, and administrators have said full distribution of the settlement fund could take three to four years, with payments prioritized by filing order and many claimants not expected to see funds until 2027 or later. If you're weighing whether or how to file a hernia mesh claim, see Atumio's hernia mesh case page for a free case review, or start your case review directly.