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Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Delaware Custom Medical Part Supplier Faces Suit in Illinois - Bloomberg Law

Confluent Medical Technologies Inc., which supplied custom components to a medical device maker whose product allegedly harmed an Illinois resident, had enough Illinois connections to her claims to support jurisdiction in the state’s courts, an Illinois appeals court affirmed.

Confluent, a Delaware corporation headquartered in California, functioned as national distributor—through Cordis Corp.—of a major component of the Cordis OptEase IVC filter, the Illinois Court of Appeals said. Confluent also directly sold other products in Illinois for use in medical devices, it said.

These Illinois contacts are related enough to Pattie Hardin’s claims to allow her to sue it there, the ...



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