June 18, 2013 ~ Just call it Multidistrict Litigation No. 2440. As if more than 23, 386 lawsuits (as of June 12) filed against synthetic transvaginal mesh makers were not enough, cases filed against Cook Medical have just been added to the multidistrict litigation (MDL) consolidated in one federal court in West Virginia. Cook is
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June 12, 2013 ~ You may have recently seen the advertisements for male urinary incontinence products. The Guardian pad was just launched in April with promises of offering “discrete protection for men who suffer from light to moderate male incontinence.” See here. According to the Mayo Clinic newsletter (here), male urinary incontinence is the most
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May 24, 2013 ~ A meeting in Charleston, West Virginia yesterday, where about 20,000 transvaginal mesh lawsuits have been consolidated, yielded an tentative agreement on tolling agreements. Under law, a tolling agreement suspends for a period of time, the statute of limitations. In this case, the July, 2013 two-year statute of limitations date will be
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May 3, 2013~ “My name is Cherie Storozinski. I am 50 years old and live in Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada. I am a victim of transvagnial mesh.” That’s how Cherie started her email to MDND. Cherie, 50, had a wonderful life in rural Manitoba, Canada. She and her husband, Curt, live on 20 acres and run
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April 30, 2013~ Marion Scott of the Sunday Mail reports for MDND on the news published this past Sunday in the Scottish tabloid newspaper. The article features a full page shot of attorney Adam Slater who was interviewed by Scott. Slater is the attorney who recently won an award on behalf of mesh victim Linda
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April 28, 2013~ Never underestimate the value of love. Even when it involves a corporation. Johnson & Johnson has revealed its new campaign – For All You Love. The campaign features black and white video with sweet sleeping babies and a mother kissing goodnight in an effort to humanize the corporation. Love, “It’s the most
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March 22, 2013 ~ by ADAM SLATER Mr. Slater of Mazie, Slater Katz & Freeman LLC of Roseland, New Jersey recently represented plaintiff Linda Gross in her product liability lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson over its Prolift surgical mesh used to treat prolapse. She was awarded $3.35 in compensatory damages and $7.76 million in
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March 8, 2013 ~ Johnson & Johnson must pay the plaintiff who brought the first DePuy metal hip implant device to trial $8.3 million in damages, a Los Angeles jury decided this afternoon. This is the first of 10,750 product liability lawsuits against J&J’s DePuy unit which makes the ASR XL hip replacement device. The
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February 28, 2013 ~ After a 31 day trial, jurors in the Linda Gross v. Ethicon case awarded $7.76 million in punitive damages to Linda and Jeff Gross for the injuries she suffered from a Johnson & Johnson product, the Prolift transvaginal mesh. The nine-person jury awarded the South Dakota couple $3.35 million in compensatory
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February 25, 2013 ~ Jurors in the Linda Gross v. Ethicon trial awarded the 47-year old woman from South Dakota and her husband $3.35 million today in an Atlantic City, New Jersey Courtroom. Jurors have been deliberating 5 days now in the product liability trial. Jurors decided the Prolift was not defectively designed by a
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