In a pelvic mesh lawsuit filed against ten manufacturers of transvaginal mesh, the plaintiffs argue that the defendants acted with oppression, fraud, malice and deliberate disregard for the foreseeable  harm caused by their products. The case was filed by a Florida husband and wife who... Read More

Earlier this week, the first of thousands of federal transvaginal mesh lawsuits returned to court after ending in a mistrial last month. The case is one of 24,000 product liability cases against six manufacturers pending in federal court dealing with allegedly defective transvaginal mesh products,... Read More

On July 2, 2013, a California federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California decided that a plaintiff’s physician was properly included as a defendant in an Ethicon sling lawsuit. The judge ruled that the case should be remanded to... Read More

A mistrial has been declared in the first Bard Avaulta mesh lawsuit to be presented before a jury. The judge presiding over the case, and all transvaginal mesh lawsuits in multidistrict litigation, declared the mistrial on the second day of the vaginal mesh trial. Cisson... Read More

The judge overseeing pretrial coordination of federal AMS mesh lawsuits has selected four cases to serve as bellwether trials. The cases were identified by Judge Joseph R. Goodwin in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. The first bellwether trial involving AMS... Read More

Coordinated proceedings involving transvaginal mesh implants just grew bigger, with a decision by a panel of federal judges to coordinate Cook Medical surgical mesh lawsuits into multidistrict litigation. The transfer order sends federal cases involving the Cook vaginal mesh devices to U.S. District Court, Southern District... Read More

Vaginal mesh manufacturer Boston Scientific has announced a partnership with the Pelvic Floor Disorders Network to study the effectiveness of vaginal mesh in treating pelvic organ prolapse (POP). The company will invest more than $1 million in the SUPeR study to determine whether these devices... Read More