An appeals court in Pennsylvania yesterday ordered a Keystone State court to cut the nearly $28 million in damages levied against Zimmer Biomet (NYSE:ZBH) in a knee implant lawsuit. Plaintiff Margo Polett claimed she re-injured her knees while making a Zimmer promotional video, after a double knee replacement procedure in 2006 using the company’s Gender Solutions device, alleging […]
Product Liability
Judge: Plaintiffs must prove cases in Zimmer NexGen knee MDL
Plaintiffs in the multi-district litigation over the NexGen knee implants made by Zimmer Biomet (NYSE:ZBH) must prove their cases under a so-called “Lone Pine” order issued by the Illinois federal judge overseeing the MDL. Named for a 1986 decision dismissing a mass toxic tort case against a New Jersey landfill, a Lone Pine order requires plaintiffs […]
Endo’s AMS claims pelvic mesh plaintiffs scammed into needless explantation surgeries
Endo International (NSDQ:ENDP) subsidiary American Medical Systems Holdings reportedly accused “a pyramid of businessmen, doctors and lawyers” of convincing women to undergo unnecessary surgeries to remove pelvic mesh implants and inflate their damage claims. AMS has set aside $1.9 billion to cover as many as 49,000 product liability lawsuits alleging injury from the devices. But the company […]
C.R. Bard settles clutch of pelvic mesh lawsuits
A West Virginia federal judge yesterday dismissed nearly 150 product liability lawsuits brought against C.R. Bard (NYSE:BCR) over its pelvic mesh products, after an appeals court earlier this year upheld a $2 million verdict against the company in another suit. Judge Joseph Goodwin of the U.S. District Court for Southern West Virginia, who’s overseeing the multi-district […]
Johnson & Johnson looks to settle morcellator lawsuits
Johnson & Johnson(NYSE:JNJ) is reportedly looking to settle 100s of product liability and wrongful death lawsuits brought over its now-recalled laparoscopic power morcellators used during surgeries to remove ostensibly benign uterine tumors. The morcellators, which use a cutting tip to shred and remove uterine tissue, have been implicated in the spread of a lethal cancer that […]
Jury slaps Johnson & Johnson with $500m verdict in Pinnacle hip bellwether
UPDATED March 18, 2016, with additional comment from DePuy, plaintiffs’ and defendant’s attorneys. A Texas federal jury today slapped Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics with a $500 million judgment in favor of a quintet of plaintiffs who said the metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implant caused their injuries. After a 2-month trial, jurors found that the […]
Fresenius, plaintiffs ask for more time for $250m settlement in dialysate cases
Fresenius Medical Care (NYSE:FMS) and the plaintiffs in a spate of lawsuits brought over its GranuFlo and NaturaLyte dialysis drugs yesterday asked a federal judge in Massachusetts to stay the case so they can finalize their $250 million settlement deal. The deal, brokered with a committee of plaintiffs’ representatives, requires that 97% of all patients who brought lawsuits sign […]
Consumers hit social media with concerns over J&J’s talc powder
(Reuters) — Consumers expressed concern on social media about a talc-based baby powder made by Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) today after a Missouri jury ordered the company to pay $72 million in damages to the family of a woman who said her death from cancer was linked to use of the product. “Johnson & Johnson” was a trending […]
Johnson & Johnson loses $72m talcum powder suit
(Reuters) — Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) was ordered by a Missouri state jury to pay $72 million in damages to the family of a woman whose death from ovarian cancer was linked to her use of the company’s talc-based Baby Powder and Shower to Shower for several decades. In a verdict announced late Feb. 22, jurors in […]
Johnson & Johnson loses another pelvic mesh suit
A federal jury in Georgia deliberated for 3 hours yesterday before delivering another loss to Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) in a product liability lawsuit brought over pelvic mesh products. The jury in the U.S. District Court for Middle Georgia awarded plaintiff Teresa Taylor $400,000 in compensatory damages and $4 million in punitive damages after finding […]
Jury docks Johnson & Johnson $14m in pelvic mesh lawsuit
A jury in Philadelphia this week reportedly docked Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon $13.5 million in the 2nd case involving its pelvic mesh products to go to trial in a mass tort in The City of Brotherly Love. The jury in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas awarded plaintiff Sharon Carlino $3.5 million in compensatory damages and $10 […]