A Special Master has been appointed to encourage a transvaginal mesh settlement between manufacturer C.R. Bard and the more than 10,000 plaintiffs who have brought suit against the company over injuries allegedly caused by their mesh products. The lawsuits have been consolidated as part of a multidistrict litigation designed to... Read more »

Jurors in Oklahoma awarded plaintiff Andrea Smith $2.5 million in compensatory damages over injuries she sustained from two defective DePuy ASR XL Acetabular hip implants. The Tulsa County jurors found in favor of Smith, after evidence was presented that the ASR metal-on-metal hip replacement was defectively designed. Jurors found for... Read more »

Mirena, a popular contraceptive, is one of only two hormonal intrauterine devices (IUDs) approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Interesting in light of the recent reports of Mirena IUD organ perforation, a recent German study compared injuries between copper and hormone-releasing intrauterine devices. The study found no... Read more »

The 74 year-old Irish medical device company, Stryker Orthopaedics, has been hit with a Rejuvenate hip lawsuit by Mr. John Dabney, a resident of Jefferson County, Alabama, and his wife, Ms. Judith Dabney. The Dabney’s suit, filed January 5, 2015, has been consolidated in MDL (multidistrict litigation) 2441 entitled In... Read more »

A plaintiff filing a Zimmer hip lawsuit in Pennsylvania alleges his defective Zimmer device led to “permanent injury and disability.” The plaintiff and his wife are claiming that the defendant failed to provide proper warning about potential risks associated with their device, leaving unknowing patients vulnerable to complications and injuries. Robert... Read more »

Another DePuy Pinnacle hip lawsuit has been filed over metallosis (or metal poisoning), an alleged result of the flawed hip replacement construction which caused the plaintiff discomfort and damage and necessitated follow-up surgery. The complaint contends that the defendant, DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. (a subsidiary corporation of Johnson & Johnson) produced... Read more »

Researchers from Kaiser Permanente have confirmed there is no way for doctors to spot uterine sarcoma before performing a laparoscopic hysterectomy or myomectomy with morcellation. As a result, morcellation may spread cancer throughout the abdomen. On December 11, the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology published the report examining the... Read more »

A lawsuit recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota represents another in the continuing deluge complaints related to the Mirena intrauterine contraceptive device. A likely candidate for tag-along status and transfer into the existing Mirena multidistrict litigation (MDL) underway in the Southern District of New... Read more »

As tens of thousands of injured women wait for resolutions of their vaginal mesh lawsuits, a bellwether trial that was scheduled to begin this month has been delayed. Judge Joseph R. Goodwin, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, postponed the trial against Ethicon by... Read more »

More than 60,000 women of varying ages have sought legal recourse for serious injuries and financial hardships attributed to transvaginal mesh devices manufactured to help treat urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse. Plaintiffs allege that defendants distributed defective products without sufficient trials or warnings about bladder sling problems such as... Read more »