After a two-week trial in a California Superior Court, a jury awarded $4.5 million to Alan Warner, who had filed his Wright hip failure lawsuit alleging injuries and economic losses. Warner alleged that although the Wright Profemur R hip implant he received was supposed to have an average lifespan of 15 to... Read more »

The largest jury award to date against Boston Scientific for a transvaginal mesh lawsuit was handed down in late May 2015. The plaintiff, a Delaware woman, sued the medical device company regarding serious and potentially permanent complications. She claimed that her ongoing pain was the result of the allegedly defective... Read more »

Joseph E. Kirkland was a recipient of the Durom Acetabular Component, or Durom Cup, a hip implant designed and manufactured by Zimmer Holdings, Inc. Now, he’s suing Zimmer for what he calls defects that “presented an unreasonably dangerous risk.” Kirkland claims that the allegedly defective Durom Cup hip failed prematurely,... Read more »

U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin, who has previously attempted to facilitate transvaginal mesh settlement negotiations for more than 70,000 lawsuits, has ordered another joint status conference for the representatives of the parties involved with mesh cases currently pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.... Read more »

One of the lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon subsidiary with regard to its transvaginal mesh products has resulted in a settlement agreement. The news of the settlement came on the fifth day of the trial and just a few days following the decision by a state court jury to... Read more »

Johnson & Johnson and their DePuy Orthopaedics subsidiary recently announced that they would extend the terms of a previously agreed upon settlement deal pertaining to DePuy hip lawsuits. The settlement deal previously applied to approximately 8,000 DePuy ASR plaintiffs, who had alleged that their hip replacement devices failed prematurely and... Read more »

Knee replacement surgery is the most prevalent type of elective surgery performed in the U.S., with an average of 700,000 procedures per year. While many knee replacement patients enjoy good results after their recovery, far too many are discovering that their knee implants are likely defective and need to be... Read more »

  With the recent filing of a class action lawsuit, a group of plaintiffs is demanding compensation in excess of $5 million for medical complications allegedly related to the da Vinci robot surgery system. They claim that the defendants, Intuitive Surgical, Inc., engaged in false and deceptive advertising practices by... Read more »

Dr. Hooman Noorchashm, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and his wife, Dr. Amy Reed, have launched a crusade aimed at convincing the FDA that a complete and total ban on power morcellators is necessary to save lives. Like many other women who have filed a cancer-related power... Read more »

After a jury ordered transvaginal mesh manufacturer C.R. Bard to pay a substantial amount to a plaintiff last year, the company began exploring settlement agreements. Now, the company has announced that it has reached an agreement with more than 500 plaintiffs, which is the first large scale effort to settle... Read more »