On April 26, an Illinois resident filed a vaginal mesh injury lawsuit alleging the Composix Kugel patch she received caused her severe complications. The case is proceeding in the U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota (DMN), where the plaintiff hopes to recover compensatory and statutory damages. The... Read More

On April 16, Kansas resident Jessica Caruthers filed a Mirena IUD lawsuit against Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, alleging severe injuries. The plaintiff claims that Bayer designed, manufactured and marketed a defective product and failed to warn about its latent dangers. Her Mirena lawyer filed the case in the U.S.... Read More

“If you want to have a true, care-free birth control that is effective for up to five years, the Mirena IUD may be the best option,” writes Michael Bomberger for Hive Media on April 5th, 2013. However, this is not the rosy picture that plaintiffs intend to... Read More

California sisters Deborah Lower and Constance Morgan filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California, on March 28, 2013, alleging that their mother's wrongful death from GranuFlo was a result of negligence and/or fraud on the part of NaturaLyte and GranuFlo manufacturers Fresenius Medical Care... Read More

Citing Stryker hip complications involving the Rejuvenate system, Elaine and Nels Petersen allege Howmedica Osteonics sold a defective product while failing to disclose the risks, dangers and side effects, such as metal fretting and corrosion. The couple filed their Stryker hip lawsuit on April 9,... Read More

According to newly disclosed court documents, Johnson & Johnson conducted an internal evaluation of the ASR hip system, just one year after the DePuy hip recall, showing that nearly 40 percent of patients would experience total hip failure within five years. The company never published... Read More

On March 26, 2013, a Massachusetts woman filed the first federal Stryker ABG II hip lawsuit to date. The action was brought against Stryker Orthopaedics by plaintiff Lisa Lincoln in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. At this time Stryker multidistrict litigation... Read More

Factors like age, prior hysterectomies, and severity of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) may be risk indicators for vaginal mesh complications, according to new research conducted by a Russian medical team. Their findings were made public at the 28th annual European Association of Urology Congress. From... Read More