Because of COVID there have been no trials for any mesh cases. With restrictions lifting, expect to see a series of hernia mesh trials ahead including defendants Bard, Atrium, and Ethicon.
Boston Scientific has agreed to pay 47 states $189 million over deceptive marketing practices, without actually admitting it committed such a thing while pushing its pelvic mesh products to women.
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.
This podcast delves into and analyses the current litigation surrounding the use of synthetic polypropylene meshes in women.
Dr. Greg Vigna talks about his book Pelvic Mesh Pain on complications associated with implanted pelvic surgical mesh.
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..
Bruce Rosenberg is a patient advocate and a hernia mesh injured patient who has turned his life work as a social worker to directing mesh-injured patients to the appropriate caregiver.
Mesh injured women traveled across the country in October 2018 to speak face-to-face with urogynecologists who advocate implanting polypropylene pelvic mesh to show them the faces of the injured.
There have been so many reports of complications concerning Paragard IUD, including 15 deaths, that a new MDL is forming in Georgia to take cases to trial.
Reports on the Essure birth control device are still being gathered by the FDA even though the device was taken off the market in late 2018. Essure was another questionable device marketed to women.
Mesh Medical Device News Desk, July 2020 ~ After attending last year's conference in beautiful downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, I thought I would br...
Johnson & Johnson is facing about 25,000 talcum powder lawsuits alleging a link to cancer. The company has set aside $3.9 billion for litigation and settlements.
A woman asks Mesh News Desk what happened to her defective pelvic mesh lawsuit against Caldera Medical?
