A Los Angeles jury has awarded $8.3 million in damages to a man who claims he suffered metal poisoning from an artificial hip implant manufactured by Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Orthopedics division.
The case is the first to go to trial of more than 10,000 involving DePuy’s ASR hip implant. According to a Bloomberg article, analysts predict that all of the lawsuits may end up costing Johnson & Johnson billions of ...
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Members of a New Jersey jury that awarded a total of $11.1 million to a woman who received a vaginal mesh implant manufactured by Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon subsidiary did not find a design defect, according to a lawyer for the plaintiff. But they did rule that the company failed to warn the plaintiff’s doctor of the hazards, and that patient brochures fraudulently misrepresented the procedure.
A story on the decision ...
continue reading...In response to increasing federal scrutiny of highly caffeinated energy drinks, Monster Beverage Corp. has opted to change its official classification from “dietary supplement” to traditional beverage, CBS News reports.
Currently, energy drink manufacturers have the option of choosing either designation. Manufacturers who go with the dietary supplement classification don’t have to list the caffeine amounts, and have more leeway when it comes to adding other ingredients.
However, dietary supplement manufacturers are required to report incidents of adverse effects to the U.S. ...
continue reading...In a blog entry for the Philadelphia Inquirer, writer David Sell points out that two makers of problematic medical devices called vaginal mesh implants recently suffered significant setbacks on the same day.
A jury in Atlantic City awarded $7.8 million in punitive damages to a former nurse who claimed that chronic pain forced her to stop working and obliged her to undergo 18 operations. In her lawsuit, she claimed her health problems started after she was implanted with a mesh device ...
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According to a story in the Huffington Post, a Pennsylvania company called Geisinger Health System has received a $1 million grant to study possible health impacts of natural gas drilling on the Marcellus Shale — a gas-rich underground rock formation that extends into Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and West Virginia.
The grant, provided by the Degenstein Foundation, is meant to underwrite a “large-scale, scientifically rigorous assessment” of the drilling technique ...
continue reading...A New Jersey jury has awarded a plaintiff injured by a Johnson & Johnson vaginal mesh implant $7.76 million in punitive damages, in addition to the $3.35 million she was awarded days earlier, Reuters reports.
Lawyers for the plaintiff alleged that Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Ethicon, manufacturer of the Gyncare Prolift vaginal mesh, were liable for defective design, manufacture, warnings and instructions, among other things.
It was the first trial for 1,800 lawsuits involving the Ethicon implant alone. Thousands of ...
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