No overhead costs will be avoided because the amount of in-house janitorial activity being contracted out is too marginal to affect overhead costs. Only the $2.63 per square feet of direct costs will be avoided, but $3.25 per square feet (the contractor's bid) in new costs will be incurred.
C.R. Bard (2011) â $184 Million Hernia Mesh Settlement In 2011, C.R. Bard paid $184 million to settle more than 2,600 lawsuits filed in a Rhode Island multidistrict litigation for their Kugel Hernia Mesh.
Search For a Doctor. State: ZIP code: Hundreds of thousands of hernia repair operations are performed each year both with and without surgical mesh, and patients generally recover quickly and do well after surgery. However, all surgical procedures are associated with some risk.