Problems from transvaginal mesh include infection, pain, organ perforation, bleeding, neuropathy, inflammation, and abscesses. Over time, transvaginal mesh systems may become imbedded in surrounding tissue, leading to infection and additional surgeries. The number of lawsuits filed in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of West... Read More

A Wisconsin woman who claims to have suffered serious vaginal mesh complications from Gynecare vaginal mesh devices has filed a lawsuit against manufacturer Ethicon Inc. and its parent company, Johnson & Johnson. The plaintiff filed her lawsuit on July 30, 2012 in the U.S. District... Read More

On July 23, 2012, a jury in Kern County Superior Court in California awarded $5 million to a woman who suffered injuries from a C.R. Bard Avaulta transvaginal mesh, plus an additional half a million dollars to the woman's husband because her vaginal mesh injuries... Read More

Vaginal mesh products are designed to treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP). However, many transvaginal mesh lawsuits cite scientific evidence that vaginal mesh is “biologically incompatible with human tissue and promotes an immune response in a large subset of the population.”... Read More

A Tennessee woman has filed a vaginal mesh case against the manufacturers of the vaginal mesh device she was implanted with because she claims that her device caused her serious and painful complications. The plaintiff was implanted with the Prolift+M Pelvic Floor Repair System and... Read More

According to a plaintiff’s attorney in a new vaginal mesh lawsuit, manufacturer Boston Scientific Corporation should have known about the transvaginal mesh problems associated with their product. For instance, on October 20, 2008, the FDA issued a public health notification entitled “Serious Complications Associated with... Read More

The FDA has proposed a new regulation that would require all new medical devices to carry a unique device identifier (UDI). The UDI would be a code of letters and numbers. Such a code would make it much easier to track devices, which in turn... Read More

According to the complaint drawn up by an Alabama woman and her husband’s vaginal mesh lawyer, she was implanted with products manufactured by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Ethicon, Inc. on February 6, 2008. She was later implanted with a product manufactured by Boston Scientific... Read More