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Pelvic Mesh: The 5% Secret Your Lawyer Doesn't Want You To Know

July 19, 2020

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.

Law Firm Pushes Back Against Legal Pelvic Mesh Malpractice Claim as Others Join

Jane Akre

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8/5/2019

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.

Lawsuit Alleges Houston Law Firms Defrauded Thousands in Pelvic Mesh Litigation

Jane Akre

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6/22/2019

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.

Pelvic Mesh MDL is Closing to New Cases!

Jane Akre

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6/25/2018

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.

Famous Mass Torts of the Past, the Story of Vioxx and its Billion Dollar Settlement

Jane Akre

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8/15/2013

A reader of MDND asks if there has ever been Mass Tort litigation of the sort we are seeing with transvaginal mesh in terms of the numbers of cases.

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FDA and Med Device Makers Make it Official

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12/8/2011

by Jane Akre// DECEMBER 7, 2011 //Shuren Signs Memo of Understanding// Minnesota loves its medical device industry. Even Senator Al Franken (D-MN) wh…