Bard Avaulta bellwether trials are scheduled to begin in June of this year, the judge overseeing the federal vaginal mesh MDL (multidistrict litigation) has decided. Judge Joseph R. Goodwin is presiding over thousands of vaginal mesh lawsuits, including those involving Avaulta devices manufactured by C.R.... 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

On March 2, 2013 another transvaginal mesh lawsuit was filed in federal court, this time in the Western District of Kentucky (Bowling Green). A Kentucky couple is suing Boston Scientific Corporation in a pharmaceutical products liability complaint over transvaginal mesh complications from the company’s product... Read More

Plaintiff Linda Gross, a South Dakota nurse who filed a vaginal mesh lawsuit against Ethicon and parent company Johnson & Johnson (J&J), was recently awarded $7.76 million in punitive damages by a New Jersey jury. Gross initially sought compensation for transvaginal mesh complications after suffering... Read More

Linda Gross, the plaintiff in the vaginal mesh trial Gross v. Ethicon, recently testified that her complications from Ethicon's Gynecare Prolift System were so severe and extensive that she has been forced to undergo 18 corrective surgeries, and still lives in pain to this day.... Read More

A husband and wife filed a transvaginal mesh lawsuit in the United States' District Court for the Central DIstrict of California on the 16th of December, 2012, after the wife suffered complications from a vaginal mesh device that she had been implanted with. The plaintiff's... Read More

A Florida woman has joined transvaginal mesh litigation after filing her lawsuit on October 19, 2012. The lawsuit is joining others that are currently proceeding in the United States' District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiff, like many others involved in transvaginal... Read More

A new lawsuit was filed by a vaginal mesh lawyer on behalf of Barbara McIntosh on January 7, 2013 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. The case alleges that the Lynx sling—a transvaginal mesh device manufactured by defendant Boston Scientific Corp.—led... Read More