Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) and C.R. Bard (NYSE:BCR) yesterday won the 1st trial in a pelvic mesh lawsuit against 2 companies after a Kansas City jury voted 10-2 that their implants were not defective and didn’t cause plaintiff Eve Sherrer’s injuries. Sherrer alleged that Bard’s Align and Boston Scientific’s Solyx products used a polypropylene mesh that reacts to tissue by […]
Product Liability
Wright Medical contests $11m hip verdict
Wright Medical (NSDQ:WMGI) yesterday asked a federal judge in Georgia to toss the $11 million verdict from the 1st bellwether trial in the multidistrict litigation filed over its Conserve metal-on-metal hip implant. An Atlanta jury last year awarded plaintiff Robyn Christiansen $1 million in compensatory damages and another $10 million in punitive damages. The jury found Nov. 24 that […]
Appeals court upholds $2m pelvic mesh award against Bard
A federal appeals court last week upheld a $2 million loss for C.R. Bard (NYSE:BCR) in a product liability lawsuit brought over its Avaulta pelvic mesh. A jury awarded plaintiff Donna Cisson $250,000 in compensatory damages and $1.75 million in punitive damages back in August 2013, in 1 of the 1st of thousands of federal lawsuits […]
Jury adds $70m in damages to $9.8m Ethicon stapler loss
A California state jury added $70 million in damages to the $9.8 million it awarded the plaintiff last week in a product liability lawsuit over Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon‘s PPH 03 hemorrhoid stapler, the plaintiff’s attorney’s said. Plaintiff Florence Kuhlmann alleged that during hemorrhoidoplexy surgery in January 2012, the defective stapler misfired, sealing her anal canal […]
Bard, Boston Scientific in 1st trial against 2 pelvic mesh makers
A trial is under way in Kansas City in a product liability lawsuit against Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) and C.R. Bard (NYSE:BCR), marking the 1st time a pelvic mesh lawsuit against 2 companies has gone before a jury, Courtroom View Network reported. Plaintiff Eve Sherrer alleges that Bard’s Align and Boston Scientific’s Solyx used a polypropylene mesh that reacts to tissue by becoming brittle […]
Defect claims beat preemption in Ethicon pelvic mesh cases
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon must face design defect claims in 37 of the 23,000 lawsuits filed against it over its pelvic mesh products, a federal judge in West Virginia ruled yesterday. Ethicon asked Judge Joseph Goodwin of the U.S. District Court for Southern West Virginia to grant summary judgment, arguing that the plaintiffs’ […]
U.K. lawyers, medical device makers convene over metal-on-metal hip lawsuits
Lawyers from both sides in more than 1,000 U.K. lawsuits filed over metal-on-metal hip implants reportedly met yesterday in London’s High Court for an unprecedented case management conference to consolidate the suits. When you need a lawyer, visit https://www.kaplunmarx.com/. There are 11 separate products involved in the litigation, including hip implants made by Johnson & Johnson […]
Jury clears Zimmer Biomet in 1st NexGen Flex knee implant trial
An Illinois jury last week cleared Zimmer Biomet (NYSE:ZBH) in the 1st bellwether trial of the more than 900 lawsuits lodged over its NexGen Flex knee replacements. Plaintiff Kathy Batty alleged that the double knee replacements she had in 2009 using the NexGen Flex implants failed, requiring revision surgeries after 2 years. But the jury in the U.S. District […]
Judicial panel centralizes Bard IVC cases
A U.S. judicial panel this week consolidated a group of product liability lawsuits filed over C.R. Bard (NYSE:BCR) inferior vena cava filters under a single court in Arizona. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation pulled together 22 lawsuits filed in federal courts around the country and assigned them to the U.S. District Court for Arizona, […]
No retrial for Ethicon in $3m pelvic mesh loss
A federal judge today shot down a bid by Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon to overturn a $3.3 million judgment in a pelvic mesh product liability lawsuit and denied the company’s move for a new trial. A jury in the U.S. District Court for Southern West Virginia awarded Jo Huskey and her husband damages of […]