Nearly 3.5 years after filing a lawsuit against Intuitive Surgical over injuries suffered during a hysterectomy allegedly caused by the company’s da Vinci Surgical System, plaintiff Michelle Zarick reached a settlement with the manufacturer on April 21. The settlement came on day three of jury deliberations, following a two-week trial... Read more »

IVC filters are designed to protect patients from life-threatening blood clots, but two recently filed class action lawsuits in Canada claim the opposite. In January, Wendy Kopeck filed a $200 million class action lawsuit against Cook Medical after doctors deemed her IVC filter removal surgery too risky to perform back in... Read more »

A New Jersey woman has received a $13.5 million vaginal mesh award from Ethicon, after a Philadelphia Court of Common pleas jury ruled in her favor in mid-February. Sharon Carlino filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming she was severely injured by the product manufactured by the Johnson & Johnson... Read more »

C.R. Bard has come under fire after recently revealed information indicates the company knew its G2 series blood clot filters had serious flaws, but the manufacturer opted to remain mum on the issue. The G2 IVC filters were designed to replace Bard’s Recovery filter — a device that was linked to... Read more »

On December 21, a woman scored a major victory over Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon subsidiary, when a jury found the manufacturer liable for gross negligence and reckless disregard for the safety of consumers for its Prolift vaginal mesh product. $12.5 million mesh verdict A Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas jury awarded... Read more »

A Louisiana couple has filed a lawsuit against Karl Storz Endoscopy-America, Inc., claiming that the company’s morcellator products are defective. Audrey Radford had a laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy with uterine morcellation on Dec. 15, 2014. Very shortly afterwards, she found out that she had uterine cancer. Prior to the procedure, there... Read more »

A date has been set for the initial status conference for all Ethicon morcellator lawsuits that have been consolidated under multidistrict litigation in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. U.S. The Honorable Kathyryn H. Vratil issued an order on Oct. 16 stated that the meeting will take... Read more »

A North Wales, PA man has filed an IVC filter lawsuit against C.R. Bard, Inc. and Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc., claiming the faulty device caused him to suffer serious and permanent injuries. An IVC filter is a small, cage-like device that is inserted into the inferior vena cava — the... Read more »

C.R. Bard has reportedly agreed to pay more than $200 million in a transvaginal mesh settlement for at least 3,000 lawsuits brought against the company. The settlement will resolve approximately one-fifth of the outstanding lawsuits the manufacturer is currently facing related to its transvaginal mesh products. Plaintiffs claim they sustained... Read more »

A research team has discovered that da Vinci robot surgery complications caused 144 patient deaths, 1,391 patient injuries and 8,061 device malfunctions from January 2000 to December 2013. The number of injuries and deaths per procedure have remained relatively constant since 2007. Surgical specialties where robots are frequently used, including... Read more »