MDND (Mesh Medical Device News Desk) and its FB Page have been receiving a lot of questions about which trials are scheduled to follow Linda Gross v. Ethicon, which on Thursday, February 28 resulted in an $11.1 million award to Linda and Jeff Gross. The award includes $7.76 million in punitive damages. See story here.
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Mesh 101: The Basics For reporters looking for a way to get started on the transvaginal mesh story, here are some highlights to shortcut your research. This is not a lawyer-generated story! There are real women suffering devastating injuries from the use of plastic mesh and it continues today! “We were very shocked and
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It is one of the lesser known transvaginal meshes. On August 6, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) ordered at least 24 Coloplast federal lawsuits to be consolidated into one court forming MDL No. 2387. Here is the transfer order. At least 13 of the cases have common questions of fact and they will
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Trudy Thomas is 53-years-old and the song, “If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have no luck at all,” might be her anthem. Thomas lives in Cascade, Colorado near Colorado Springs and halfway through our profile interview, she had to flee her mountain cabin. Flames invaded the canyons around her home where she lives
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July 20, 2012 ~ In this published report in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, Jan-Feb 2012, doctors from Dewitt Amy Hospital, Fort Belvoir, VA, determined irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) can be caused by a mesh complication. In this case a 50-year-old woman had Marlex hernia mesh implanted 13 years earlier to
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Generally speaking, lawyers avoid talking to reporters. But in a July 10 press release (here), Henry G. Garrard III of Blasingame, Burch, Garrard & Ashley, P.C., an Athens, Georgia law firm, recounts what he’s told to Bloomberg News in a June 26, 2012 story (here). The story – how Johnson & Johnson continued to sell
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An Athlete’s Challenge with Surgical Mesh Patricia Buchanan, 61, a widow and triathlete from Whidbey Island outside of Seattle, was training for the USAT age group Nationals Olympic Distance Triathlon scheduled for Burlington, Vermont last August. Share this:
Silverman is one of many men who finds himself disregarded. Not only do medical doctors not believe his pain following a mesh implant to treat a hernia, but the FDA has omitted men from its two warnings about the serious adverse events that can result from the synthetic implant. Share this:
by Jane Akre, OCTOBER 18, 2011 – Ever since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued its July 13th notification that complications from the implantation of surgical mesh in women are “not rare”, (see here) the mesh manufacturers were put on notice that women suffering in silence from the effects of synthetic surgical mesh would
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OCTOBER 13, 2011 – Hundreds of lawsuits against medical device maker, C.R. Bard, have been filed and the latest motion attempts to bring them into one mass case. Share this:
