Greetings from Nonie Wideman, a survivor of medical complications from Foreign Body Response (FBR) to synthetic medical mesh. I have spent over 15 years advocating for children and families, over twelve of them as a specialized care provider teaching coping and life skills.  I had to put into practice myself what I taught after a
[continue reading...]

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
[continue reading...]

Thanks again to Courtroom View Network for access to this trial! February 21, 2013 ~ On this Day 26 of the Linda Gross v. Ethicon trial, the jury took this second full day of deliberations to ask the court to re-read Ms. Gross’s testimony from her court appearance. The jury received the case after closing
[continue reading...]

  February 1, 2013~ As the plaintiff’s case wraps up in the Linda Gross v. Ethicon trial, the deposition of the Medical Affairs Director of Ethicon (Johnson & Johnson) Europe appeared to jurors via his taped deposition. Dr. Axel Arnaud seemed dismissive of the questions asked by plaintiff attorney Adam Slater. At times his thick
[continue reading...]

Safety of Trans Vaginal Mesh procedure: retrospective study of 684 patients. This is the study by the French researchers known as the TVM group who were perfecting the Prolift technique, learning to develop tools or trocars to implant the mesh in a woman’s pelvic area.  Find it here. The study had an average follow-up rate
[continue reading...]

January 26, 2013 ~ It was Day 11 in the Linda Gross v. Ethicon trial that brought Dr. Charlotte Owens, Worldwide Medical Affairs Director for Ethicon to the stand via videotaped deposition. Her story was remarkable for the safety and efficacy information that did not make it into the Clinical Expert Report. It was her
[continue reading...]

January 16, 2013 ~ The worldwide medical director of Ethicon took the stand all day in the trial of Linda Gross v Ethicon in an Atlantic City courtroom. The past president of the Flemish Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 2007 to 2008, Piet Hinoul had become the Director of Medical Affairs at Ethicon, a
[continue reading...]

January 12~ 2012 Thanks to Courtroom View Network for providing a live feed to MDND. Day two of Linda Gross v Ethicon trial in an Atlantic City court brought an Ethicon engineer to the stand who was presented with a mountain of internal company documents intended to show how safety and efficacy of the Prolift
[continue reading...]

January 8, 2013 ~ Jurors are being selected today for the first of 1,974 lawsuits to be heard in a New Jersey state court against Johnson & Johnson, maker of the Gynecare Prolift Pelvic Floor Repair System (here) transvaginal mesh. Plaintiff Linda Gross from Watertown, South Dakota and her lawyers argue that Ethicon, a division
[continue reading...]

  October 15, 2012 ~ It could become the largest class action product liability lawsuit in Australian history. Julie Davis is the plaintiff who heads the class action lawsuit filed against Johnson & Johnson (J&J), in the third class action against the company in Australia in as many years. She like other women had what
[continue reading...]