The plaintiff in the 1st pelvic mesh lawsuit to go to trial against Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) won a new trial yesterday when a Massachusetts appeals court overturned a 2014 verdict dismissing the case. Diane Albright alleged that the Pinnacle mesh implanted to treat her pelvic organ prolapse was improperly designed and caused her injuries after it was […]
Pelvic Mesh Lawsuits
Kentucky joins Calif., Wash. state in suing J&J’s Ethicon over pelvic mesh
Kentucky joined California and Washington state in suing Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon over its pelvic mesh products, accusing the company of deceptively marketing its treatments for female urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse. Ethicon is already facing tens of thousands of product liability lawsuits over the pelvic mesh devices; in Kentucky, more than […]
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 […]
Report: Feds impanel grand jury in Boston Scientific pelvic mesh probe
A federal probe into allegations that Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) used counterfeit resin to make pelvic mesh products has reportedly convened a grand jury in West Virginia that’s already sent out several subpoenas. The accusations 1st surfaced in January with the filing of a purported class-action racketeering lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Southern West Virginia, the venue for multi-district […]
Johnson & Johnson’s $5m mesh settlement could push costs higher
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon could be facing a steeper-than-expected tab when it comes to settling the more than 46,000 product liability lawsuits brought over its pelvic mesh products, after details about 1 settlement became public in a legal filing. J&J agreed to pay $5 million to settle plaintiff Pamela Wicker’s lawsuit alleging that […]
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 […]
Boston Scientific, Bard escape joint pelvic mesh trial
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 […]
Judge boots Boston Scientific counterfeit mesh case to the FDA
A federal judge yesterday booted a purported class-action racketeering lawsuit filed against Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX), accusing the medical device maker of illegally smuggling counterfeit resin made in China to make pelvic mesh. The lawsuit was filed Jan. 12 in the U.S. District Court for Southern West Virginia, the venue for multi-district litigation against a clutch of companies over their respective […]
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 […]
