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- Litigation Continues Over Defective Johnson & Johnson Transvaginal Mesh
Johnson & Johnson and their Ethicon unit face another defective medical device lawsuit in Philadelphia over their transvaginal mesh products. Sharon Beltz claims that she was injured by a pelvic mesh device because of alleged oversights in the manufacturing process. Opening statements have taken...
- Transvaginal Mesh Marketing Leads to Kentucky Lawsuit
Kentucky has followed California and Washington and filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson and its Ethicon unit. Ethicon is the branch of Johnson & Johnson that handles medical device manufacturing. The Attorney General is suing on behalf of mor...
- Bard to Pay $200 Million over Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuits
According to Bloomberg, medical device manufacturer C. R. Bard has agreed to pay more than $200 million to settle over 3,000 transvaginal mesh lawsuits. The news comes from five sources close to the situation, and if true, represents a massive victory for women who suffered from the allegedly defect...
- 26 Ethicon Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuits Set for Single Trial
According to Reuters, a federal judge has consolidated 26 transvaginal mesh lawsuits filed against Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon unit in a single trial scheduled for November 2 of this year. The lawsuits will join over 26,000 other Ethicon transvaginal mesh lawsuits that have been consolidated i...
- Boston Scientific Ordered to Pay $100 Million in Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuit
Boston Scientific Corp. has been ordered to pay $100 million to a Delaware woman who claims the company’s transvaginal mesh implants caused her chronic pain and left her unable to have sex. According to Bloomberg, this marks the first verdict returned following Boston Scientific’s agreement to s...
- What Kinds of Damages are Available in a Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuit?
Women who have been injured by the use of transvaginal mesh have the legal right to recover for their economic and non-economic losses that have occurred as a result. Because every case is different, victims should be certain to discuss their situation with an attorney familiar with transvaginal mes...
- First Federal Transvaginal Mesh Claim Going to Trial
An article from the Daily Report Online describes a woman in Georgia who filed the first federal claim against one of the Transvaginal mesh manufacturers. The claim against C.R. Bard detailed the health problems she’s endured as a result of receiving a vaginal mesh implant. She explains the Transv...
- Opening arguments in transvaginal mesh case
Opening arguments took place in the court case involving a woman who needed 18 operations to repair damage from a transvaginal mesh implant. Her lawyer alleged that manufacturer Johnson & Johnson sold the device, which is supposed to shore up weakened pelvic muscles, after testing it inadequatel...
- Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuit
Johnson & Johnson has stopped marketing the Gynecare Prolift transvaginal mesh due to severe injury and complications. The Prolift brand of transvaginal mesh joins a growing list of mesh products that are causing injury as plaintiffs are awarded damages in transvaginal mesh lawsuits. On Februar...
- FDA approval of transvaginal mesh based on device that was recalled
Lopez McHugh has learned that transvaginal mesh devices, which are causing women extreme pain due to mesh erosion, extrusion, and failure, was approved by the FDA because they were similar another device on the market that has been recalled due to problems. Yet this approval process is not limited ...
