The three-week trial of Jennifer Snowden concluded with a jury win for Ethicon over her Abbrevo transvaginal mesh. She vows to continue the fight for other women.
New Jersey Superior Court will be the venue for an upcoming number of hernia mesh trials focused on the LifeCell Strattice biologic mesh. This is the first trial of a biologic mesh made of pig skin.
Breaking News - a Verdict has just been reached for Paul Trevino who claims injuries from his Bard/Davol Ventralex mesh. Jurors decided on $4.8 Million in compensatory damages.
The Paul Trevino trial is the first among thousands to be heard in Rhode Island state court and will be closely watched by the hernia mesh industry.
The nine-day trial of Tina Burris v Johnson & Johnson ended with a defendant win after jurors decided the company had issued adequate warnings about the risks of Prolift.
In a Friday verdict, an Ohio jury decided Becton, Dickinson, which acquired Bard 5 years ago, must pay a hernia mesh injured man $255k. Punitive damages were not awarded.
The trial over Ethicon's Abbrevo SUI mesh sling is finally set for May 24, 2022 after much courtroom wrangling between the implanting doctor and the company, owned by Johnson & Johnson.
Why is the leading urogynecology organization saying that SUI mesh is not a problem where there have been thousands of defective product lawsuits?
In the bellwether hernia mesh trial of Steven Johns, jurors delivered a victory for Bard after a five-week trial.
The New Jersey Supreme Court will not intervene in an important question - Did Texas law firms commit legal malpractice when they charged a 40% contingency fee rather than the NJ cap of 33.3%?
For court nerds, mesh manufacturers secured two wins at the appellate court level using a novel argument that's not been successfully tried before. Hrymoc and McGinnis may be retried. Docs included.
Johnson & Johnson appealed a judgment awarding $2.6 million to three Australian women injured by defective mesh implants. The class action has now grown to 10,000 women with similar claims.
Multidistrict litigation was supposed to move more than 100-thousand pelvic mesh cases quickly through the court, but the MDL left many cases unresolved and many law firms handsomely rewarded.
Hernia mesh trials have not moved forward because of COVID and closed courtrooms. Optimistically, those will begin with bellwether trials in the new year.
For two years, U of Georgia law professor has been collecting your insights into the MDL system that took most cases to court or settlement. Her work should reveal what works and what doesn't.
After seven years of appeals, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court jury issued its opinion deciding that the damage award of $12.85 million against Ethicon should stand..
Dangers Associated with Bladder Pain Drug, J&J’s Elmiron include the potential for blindness. The company added a warning in June 24 years after its use by millions.
*UPDATE* Judge Goodwin has declared a mistrial in this long-awaited pelvic mesh case of Sutphin v. Ethicon. Last Friday, Judge Goodwin who at one ti…
If you were injured by pelvic mesh and have received or are waiting for a settlement, your lawyer does NOT want you to know that there is nothing in the litigation that specifies the plaintiff pays.
Mesh Medical Device News Desk, March 3, 2020~ This is just the beginning of compensation being offered to thousands of Australian women implanted per…
In the case of Charlotte Salinero v. Ethicon (J&J), a federal jury found in January 2020 that the manufacturer was not liable for the injuries claimed by Salinero in this abdominally placed mesh.
ABC News AU, Julie Davis (center) Mesh News Desk, November 20, 2019 ~ After two years of court action, the federal judge in a Sydney, Australia (AU) ...
The business model for Johnson & Johnson and its Ethicon Inc. medical device subdivision appears to be - push ahead and pay a fine if caught. J&J must pay $117 M for deceptive marketing of its mesh.
Johnson & Johnson loses its latest appeal of the Sharon Beltz case and her award of $2.43 Million. This is the ninth loss for the healthcare giant in this particular venue.
Attorney Ben Anderson is the latest to request an appellate court review how millions of dollars set aside from the MDL, are being used to award those firms loyal to the MDL executive committee.
Ingrid Nygaard May 15, 2013 ~ Bloomberg (here) reports surgery to treat pelvic organ prolapse failed about 25 percent of the time within seven years...
Liz Reece is a 48-year-old woman from Oxfordshire, United Kingdom who had a mild case of incontinence. “I went into an Oxford hospital’s pelvic clinic…
Two Published Studies - Consider Your Odds SEPTEMBER 20, 2011- Two studies on the use of synthetic mesh for female stress urinary incontinence treatm...
Dr. Robert Bendavid, Shouldice Hospital, Toronto Mesh Medical Device News Desk, September 2017 ~ Dr. Robert Bendavid is a leading hernia surgeon wit…
