The federal judge presiding over the transvaginal mesh litigation coordinated in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia has ordered that 200 of the mesh injury lawsuits filed against Ethicon be prepared for trial dates early in 2016. Ethicon, which is a subsidiary of Johnson &... 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 »

In a complaint filed on August 5, a Texas plaintiff alleges that the transvaginal mesh device used to treat her urinary incontinence problem caused serious injuries. Margaret McMahen v. Johnson & Johnson and Ethicon, Inc. was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, where the defendant is... Read more »

A Covidien transvaginal mesh settlement will resolve some of the more than 11,000 claims currently pending against the company. Covidien agreed to the settlement on June 23rd, involving transvaginal mesh devices that allegedly caused patients to suffer severe and painful side effects. The West Virginia federal court filing did not disclose the... Read more »

A joint trial for 26 women who have filed Gynecare TVT mesh lawsuits has been scheduled for later this year. U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin issued a pretrial order on June 12, setting the consolidated trial date for November 2, 2015. At this time, the 26 lawsuits filed by women... 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 »

A motion has been filed with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to centralize all federal product liability lawsuits brought by plaintiffs who experienced complications with Bard inferior venous cava (IVC) filters for coordinated pretrial proceedings. This is not the first MDL regarding C.R. Bard products, as hundreds of... Read more »

Boston Scientific has announced its first transvaginal mesh settlement to resolve a large number of lawsuits filed over its allegedly defective devices designed to treat stress urinary incontinence and other conditions in women. The company, which has stated that it is contending with over 25,000 such cases, reports that approximately... Read more »

Federal Judge Joseph Goodwin, who is presiding over vaginal mesh litigation in the Southern District of West Virginia, ruled that the claimant in a suit against Boston Scientific can proceed with her punitive damages claim. In his order, issued April 13, Judge Goodwin found that Sharon Kay Pelkey sufficiently alleged... 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 »