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 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 »

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 »

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 »

The second bellwether case to go before trial in the Ethicon MDL was a resounding victory for the plaintiff, 52-year-old Jo Husky. A federal panel in West Virginia district court determined that Ethicon’s Gynecare TVT Obturator suffered design flaws, and ultimately caused the plaintiff’s severe injuries and complications. As such,... Read more »

Pelvic mesh manufacturer Covidien indicates it will pay $180 million in legal charges in its third quarter, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing. The charges are in relation to vaginal mesh products that two of the company’s subsidiaries supplied to manufacturers including C.R. Bard – another company... Read more »