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.
If one legal team is any indication, doctors who implant polypropylene mesh to treat incontinence could be charged with medical malpractice.
Another woman has joined four other plaintiffs in a president setting case again Texas law firms who are alleged to have failed their pelvic mesh clients.
It is the smallest jury compensation so far, in a number of pelvic mesh personal injury trials, but on Friday June 28, 2019, Linda and Thomas Dunfee were successful in her pelvic mesh case against J&J
This is the second lawsuit filed against law firms involved in pelvic mesh cases who warehoused thousands of cases, some expired, then run them through the settlement mill en masse.
The Mazie Slater law firm of Roseland, New Jersey has filed a class action that could retrieve $15 million in allegedly excess fees collected by plaintiffs' lawyers.
The pelvic mesh trial of Patricia Mesigian, conducted in Philadelphia, ended with an $80M jury award to the mesh-injured woman.
Mesh Medical Device News Desk, May 1, 2019 ~ May first is the Worldwide Mesh Awareness Day, a term coined by the Mesh Awareness Movement, though recog…
Attorney and law professor, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch advised on what you should ask if you need to hire an attorney, especially if you are part of a mass tort.
With so much money at stake, the accusations are flying among lawyers trying to divvy the hundreds of millions of dollars set aside as the common benefit fund to go to those who did the heavy lifting.
Mesh maker, Ethicon, has been trying to keep pelvic mesh trials out of the plaintiff-friendly venue of Philadelphia. So far the efforts have failed.
Some transvaginal mesh attorneys are hotly contesting the 5% common benefit fund which was supposed to be distributed among those firms who did the most work in the mesh MDL.
While more than $7 billion has gone to settle pelvic mesh cases, some law firms believe their contribution to trying the cases is being subverted and they are being cheated of what they are due.
This story was originally published in May 2018. It is addressed to the thousands of women who are waiting- for a settlement or a defective product trial.
In terms of pelvic mesh litigation, those women with a "Mesh in Place" that is, no revision, there is a way to stay in the pelvic mesh litigation.
The judge overseeing more than 100-thousand pelvic mesh product liability lawsuits addressed the lawyers involved in pelvic mesh litigation. He delivered good news, they can split $550M from a 5% fund
What happened with the Mesh Mess in 2018? Here are just some of the highlights of coverage in the U.S. in 2018 with many more stories reported glob…
It had to happen. The hundreds of millions of dollars resulting from the 5% common benefit fund, $500m? needs to be divided among law firms involved with mesh litigation. Can you say contentious?
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It began in January 2012. Multidistrict litigation (MDL) was supposed to make getting to trial easier to eliminate the confusion on conflicted lower court rulings, but 6 years later, it's closing.
For some plaintiffs, it can make all of the difference where their case is litigated, particularly when it comes to pelvic mesh cases.
Judge Joseph Goodwin Mesh News Desk, April 4, 2016 ~ Pace of Trials Naming J&J Increases This week lawyers and representatives from mesh making compa…
Dr. Robert Bendavid, Shouldice Hospital, Toronto Mesh Medical Device News Desk, September 2017 ~ Dr. Robert Bendavid is a leading hernia surgeon wit…
Bruce Rosenberg is a patient advocate and hernia-mesh injured man who understands how to help people injured by hernia mesh. He asks- Is it the polypropylene?
Alliance of Professional Health Advocates website Mesh Medical Device News Desk, September 5, 2016 ~ Patient Advocates, a Growing Field It is a new …
