The C.R. Bard unit of BD (NYSE:BDX) was ordered to pay $4.8 million in a lawsuit related to its hernia mesh, Reuters reports. The news agency said the company must pay nearly $5 million in a lawsuit brought by a Hawaii man who said he suffered serious complications from the implanted hernia repair mesh. BD […]
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J&J’s Ethicon wins lawsuit over hernia mesh
A New Jersey appeals court has thrown out a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) and its Ethicon unit because the woman who had mesh implanted to correct a hernia could not identify its manufacturer. Plaintiffs Deborah Kline and her husband, Jeffrey Derstine, sued the companies in 2014, alleging that the polypropylene mesh implanted in Kline’s […]
