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Supreme Court denies J&J appeal of $302M vaginal mesh ruling

February 21, 2023 By Jim Hammerand

The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear Johnson & Johnson‘s (NYSE:JNJ) appeal of a $302 million judgment for false and deceptive marketing of its vaginal mesh implants. The nation’s highest court denied the medtech maker’s bid for review without comment, allowing the California ruling to stand. Attorneys for the state sued Johnson & Johnson […]

Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Implants, Legal News, News Well, Product Liability Tagged With: Ethicon, Johnson & Johnson, pelvic mesh, Pelvic Mesh Lawsuits

J&J settles big Australian pelvic mesh case

September 12, 2022 By Chris Newmarker

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) has settled an Australian pelvic mesh class action suit for AU$300 million (roughly U.S. $205 million), according to media reports. Shine Lawyers, which handled the suit, confirmed the settlement. It still requires court approval. More than 11,000 claimants in Australia had sought relief, according to Reuters. In a statement shared […]

Filed Under: Featured, Gynecological, Legal News, News Well, Women's Health Tagged With: Ethicon, Johnson & Johnson, pelvic mesh

Coloplast wins summary judgement in transvaginal mesh suit in Minnesota

July 19, 2022 By Sean Whooley

A federal judge in Minnesota granted summary judgment to Coloplast in a lawsuit over the company’s transvaginal mesh. Angela Dawn Cantrell received the Restorelle L mesh implant as part of surgery to correct vaginal prolapse in January 2018. Cantrell continued to experience pain and pelvic floor dysfunction after the surgery and underwent additional surgeries. In […]

Filed Under: Featured, Gynecological, Legal News, News Well, Product Liability, Women's Health Tagged With: Coloplast, pelvic mesh, Pelvic Mesh Lawsuits, transvaginal mesh

California appeals court orders Johnson & Johnson to pay $302M in pelvic mesh case

April 15, 2022 By Chris Newmarker

A California appeals court mostly agreed that Johnson & Johnson must pay the state hundreds of millions of dollars over misleading marketing around the risks of pelvic mesh products. The Fourth District Court of Appeals in California, in its April 11 ruling, reduced the size of the civil penalties against J&J’s Ethicon subsidiary by $42 […]

Filed Under: Featured, Gynecological, Legal News, News Well, Product Liability, Women's Health Tagged With: Johnson & Johnson, pelvic mesh

AdvaMed supports effort to overturn J&J pelvic mesh ruling in California

September 30, 2021 By Chris Newmarker

Medical device trade group AdvaMed announced today that it has filed an amicus curiae brief supporting an appeal to overturn a $344 million pelvic mesh ruling against Johnson & Johnson in California. Lawyers for AdvaMed tell the California Court of Appeal that the San Diego Superior Court judgment violated safe harbor protections because the case involved […]

Filed Under: Featured, Legal News Tagged With: AdvaMed, Johnson & Johnson, pelvic mesh

Boston Scientific settles host of state pelvic mesh lawsuits for nearly $189M

March 23, 2021 By Chris Newmarker

Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) has agreed to pay $188.6 million to 47 states and the District of Columbia to resolve claims that it deceptively marketed transvaginal surgical mesh devices, state AGs announced today. Pelvic mesh products have been one of the medical device industry’s worst failures so far in the 21st century. First cleared nearly two […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Featured, Gynecological, Legal News, Product Liability, Women's Health Tagged With: Boston Scientific, pelvic mesh, transvaginal mesh

N.J. appeals court tosses $83M pelvic mesh verdicts against J&J, Bard

March 3, 2021 By Nancy Crotti

A New Jersey appeals court yesterday threw out jury verdicts totaling $83 million in separate pelvic mesh lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson’s  (NYSE:JNJ) Ethicon division and Becton Dickinson (NYSE:BDX) subsidiary C.R. Bard. In both cases, Bergen County, N.J. judges erred by disallowing evidence showing that each company’s mesh product had received FDA 510 (k) clearance, according […]

Filed Under: 510(k), Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Legal News, Product Liability, Regulatory/Compliance, Women's Health Tagged With: AdvaMed, becton dickinson, C.R. Bard, Ethicon, Johnson & Johnson, pelvic mesh

Federal lawsuit over Boston Sci pelvic mesh heads to trial

February 17, 2021 By Chris Newmarker

A federal judge in Arkansas has ruled that most counts in a pelvic mesh lawsuit against Boston Scientific can go to trial. Kortney Cline sued Boston Sci in 2014, claiming that she suffered injuries after implantation with the company’s Obtryx trans-obturator mid-urethral sling in 2009. Cline’s case was recently transferred to federal court in Arkansas […]

Filed Under: Featured, Gynecological, Legal News, News Well, Product Liability, Women's Health Tagged With: Boston Scientific, pelvic mesh, Pelvic Mesh Lawsuits

BD is paying $60M to settle Bard pelvic mesh suits with most U.S. states

September 24, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

Becton Dickinson (NYSE:BDX) will pay $60 million to 48 U.S. states to resolve allegations that its C.R. Bard business deceptively marketed transvaginal surgical mesh devices, state attorneys general in California and Washington announced today. Mesh products were meant to treat the weakening of the muscles and ligaments supporting a woman’s pelvic organs, but they instead sparked […]

Filed Under: Featured, Gynecological, Legal News, Product Liability, Women's Health Tagged With: BD, becton dickinson, C.R. Bard, pelvic mesh

Study: FDA should have banned pelvic mesh long before it did

February 19, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Researchers who conducted a long-term study of women implanted with transvaginal mesh to treat pelvic organ prolapse (POP) concluded that the FDA should have banned the product sooner than it did. The study of 54,194 women in New York State revealed that women treated with mesh had an 8.8% risk of reintervention 5 years after […]

Filed Under: Clinical Trials, Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Gynecological, Regulatory/Compliance, Women's Health Tagged With: FDA, pelvic mesh

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