A state court jury in Philadelphia reportedly slapped Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon with a $120 million verdict yesterday in a product liability lawsuit brought over one of its pelvic mesh products. The jury in the Pennsylvania Court of Common pleas awarded Susan McFarland $20 million in compensatory damages and $100 million in punitive damages after […]
Product Liability
UPDATE: Jury finds J&J’s Ethicon not liable in Philly pelvic mesh trial
UPDATE: Includes comment from J&J’s Ethicon Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon has been found not liable in a suit claiming that an allegedly faulty pelvic mesh implant had caused a patient’s condition to worsen, alongside other complications, according to a report from TheLawFirm.com. A jury in Philadelphia yesterday took less than a full day of deliberations […]
Pennsylvania appeals court upholds $14m plaintiff win in Ethicon mesh case
A state appeals court in Pennsylvania yesterday upheld the plaintiff’s $13.7 million win in a product liability lawsuit brought over one of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon‘s pelvic mesh products. Plaintiff Sharon Carlino was awarded $13.5 million in damages in February 2016, after a Keystone State jury found that the Ethicon transvaginal polypropylene tape […]
Judge guts plaintiff’s case in 2nd Cook Medical IVC bellwether
An Indiana judge last week gutted the plaintiff’s case in the second bellwether trial in the multi-district litigation brought over Cook Medical‘s inferior vena cava filters. Tonya Brand sued Cook in 2014, alleging that the Celect IVC filter implanted prior to a spine procedure fragmented, sending the broken pieces into her thigh and near her […]
Stryker, plaintiffs to settle hip implant cases
A Massachusetts federal judge last week stayed the multi-district litigation brought over hip implants made by Stryker (NYSE:SYK) so that the company and lawyers representing thousands of plaintiffs can hash out a settlement. Judge Indira Talwani of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, who is overseeing one of the MDLs, stayed discovery through July 31, 2019, “so […]
Judge pares claims in Bard IVC bellwether
A federal judge in Arizona yesterday pared some claims in the third bellwether case involving inferior vena cava filters made by Becton Dickinson (NYSE:BDX) subsidiary C.R. Bard, as the trial entered its 11th day. It’s the fourth bellwether in the multi-district litigation over the IVC devices, which are designed to prevent blood clots from passing through […]
Missouri appeals court revives pelvic mesh suit against BD’s Bard
A Missouri state appeals court last week revived a pelvic mesh product liability lawsuit against Becton Dickinson & Co. (NYSE:BDX) subsidiary C.R. Bard, ruling that a lower court was wrong to exclude prior verdicts that went against the company. Barad and co-defendant Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) escaped the suit in February 2016 after a Kansas City jury voted 10-2 […]
Bayer loses bid to keep Essure cases in federal court
Bayer (ETR:BAYN), which last week said it’s taking its Essure female sterilization device off the U.S. market this year, lost a bid yesterday to keep a clutch of personal injury lawsuits in federal court. The German medical giant had a group of 16 cases that were originally filed in a Pennsylvania state court removed to the […]
Abbott’s St. Jude Medical must face negligence suit over Riata leads
Abbott (NYSE:ABT) subsidiary St. Jude Medical must face a negligence lawsuit brought over its recalled Riata defibrillator leads after a federal judge ruled that the case is not pre-empted by federal rules. Plaintiff Kristen Bull was implanted with a St. Jude implantable cardioverter defibrillator using Riata leads in November 2010, just a month before the company pulled the […]
Boston Scientific wins third Mass. pelvic mesh trial
Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) last week won the third Massachusetts trial of a product liability lawsuit brought over two of its pelvic mesh products. Ana Martinez and her husband Jose sued Marlborough, Mass.-based Boston Scientific in August 2012 in the Bay State’s Middlesex County Superior Court. After a 16-day trial, the jury found June 15 that Boston was […]
Appeals court slashes $50m from J&J stapler suit damages
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon had approximately $50 million slashed from punitive damages it owes in a product liability suit over its PPH 03 hemorrhoid stapler, according to recently released court documents. In December 2015, a California state jury awarded the plaintiff in the case, Florence Kuhlmann, $70 million in punitive damages on top of an […]