Plaintiffs that have filed lawsuits alleging serious injuries from vaginal mesh products may benefit from an upcoming Covidien transvaginal mesh settlement. Covidien has agreed to settle at least a portion of the more than 11,000 cases currently pending that involved this manufacturer of mesh devices.... Read More

The judge overseeing multidistrict litigation involving Ethicon mesh lawsuits in West Virginia has made the decision to consolidate more than two dozen of those lawsuits for trial this fall. This decision comes as more than 23,000 complaints against Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary Ethicon remain pending... Read More

A $100 million transvaginal mesh verdict has been awarded to the plaintiff in the latest lawsuit filed against manufacturer Boston Scientific over their allegedly defective mesh product. The Delaware jury handed down the award on May 28th after a two-week trial and seven hours of... Read More

In April, 2015, federal judge Joseph R. Goodwin of the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia faced a legally complex analysis regarding the applicability of punitive damages in an ongoing transvaginal mesh product liability case against Boston Scientific Corporation. Procedurally,... Read More

Medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific Corp., facing more than 25,000 transvaginal mesh lawsuits in federal and state courts because of its allegedly flawed "Pinnacle" product announced last week that it has reached its first settlement agreement amounting to $119 million to resolve 2,970 cases. Boston... Read More

The federal judge presiding over more than 70,000 transvaginal mesh lawsuits has ordered another joint conference status meeting in order to find a way to resolve the majority of the complaints through large scale settlements. The lawsuits all allege that various brands of transvaginal mesh... Read More

A transvaginal mesh settlement has been reached in a lawsuit that had been selected for a bellwether trial as part of a federal mass tort against medical device maker Ethicon, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. Details of the settlement were not disclosed. Only one day earlier,... Read More

For the past several years, several manufacturers of transvaginal mesh have artfully evaded settlement, opting to extend the litigation process to its lengthiest possible conclusion. Currently, there are seven ongoing vaginal mesh multidistrict litigations (MDL) proceedings in the federal court system, each involving one of the seven defendants... Read More