Judge Joseph Goodwin Mesh Medical Device News Desk, April 11, 2018 ~ Judge Joseph Goodwin, overseeing more than 104,000 pelvic mesh product liability cases filed in his West Virginia court, will dismiss more than 13,000 non-revision Ethicon mesh cases, allowing them to be refiled if the woman undergoes Read more
Mesh Medical Device News Desk, March 9, 2018 ~ Once again Ethicon has challenged a mesh-injured woman in court and once again, the healthcare giant has lost! The product liability trial of Kaiser v Ethicon began in Hammond, Indiana, February 26th. One of the earliest pelvic mesh product liability cases Read more
Mesh Medical Device News Desk, February 13, 2018~ Boston Scientific has lost its latest effort to overturn an $18.5 million loss by four plaintiffs at trial over its Obtryx pelvic mesh. THE TRIAL The Tyree case (here) consolidated four products liability cases against Boston Scientific (BSC) and was heard in Read more
Mary, Vada Mae and Ruth Mesh Medical Device News Desk, February 12, 2018 ~ There were many responses to the story of Mary Dickson. She had planned to take the wrongful death case of her mother, Vada Mae Smith, ahead Pro Se, without an attorney in mutidistrict pelvic Read more
From whistleblower law Mesh Medical Device News Desk, January 25, 2018 ~ The MDL system is handling the bulk of transvaginal mesh cases and if you ask many of the 104,000 plaintiffs, they do not feel they are being adequately served. That is not stopping other mass torts Read more
Tad and Elizabth Hrymoc, from NorthJersey.com Mesh Medical Device News Desk, December 12, 2017 ~ The pelvic mesh trial of plaintiff Elizabeth Hyrmoc will wrap up this week with closing arguments presented Wednesday, December 13. Hrymoc was implanted with two mesh products made by Johnson & Johnson - Read more
Plaintiffs' lawyers filing into Charleston court. Mesh Medical Device News Desk, November 2017 ~ Mesh Medical Device News Desk (MND) keeps tabs on the pelvic mesh litigation so far. Here are the Transvaginal Mesh Cases as of today: 1. 7/12: $5.5 million – Christine Scott – C.R. Bard Avaulta Plus Read more
Bergen Co NJ Mesh Medical Device News Desk, November 27, 2017~ The case of Elizabeth and Tad Hrymock got underway in a Bergen Co. New Jersey courtroom today. She has filed a defective product lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and its Ethicon division, alleging the TVT-O and Read more
Eva Echeverria, awarded $417 over talc use MND, October 21, 2017 ~ Two months ago, Eva Echeverria, 63, sent the most powerful message yet to healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson over its talcum powder and a suspected link to ovarian cancer. A Los Angeles jury awarded her $417 Read more
Jacqueline Fox, National Law Journal Mesh Medical Device News Desk, October 18, 2017 ~ In the first of its kind, a talcum powder ovarian cancer case that resulted in a $72 million verdict, has been tossed by an appeals court. The reason- she was not from St. Louis Read more
