A West Virginia jury has granted a $3.27 million bladder sling lawsuit award to a plaintiff alleging permanent injuries from a vaginal mesh device manufactured by Ethicon. This is one of the first cases to go to trial against Ethicon, while more than 21,000 are... Read More

Boston Scientific has now won two transvaginal mesh lawsuits in Massachusetts state court. On August 29, following two days of deliberation, a Massachusetts jury returned a Obtryx product liability verdict in favor of the defendant. The state court judge presiding over the proceedings previously excluded... Read More

The judge presiding over thousands of lawsuits related to transvaginal mesh products has issued a pretrial order striking down the defendant’s motion to separate five Boston Scientific mesh lawsuits that were consolidated for a single trial date in October. The defendants filed the motion to... Read More

The federal judge presiding over a vaginal mesh lawsuit filed against C.R. Bard has struck down a number of allegations while upholding others. Judge Joel H. Slomsky issued the order on July 30, 2014 for the case proceeding in the U.S. District Court for the... Read More

C.R. Bard has agreed to more than 500 transvaginal mesh settlements with clients represented by two law firms, according to a second quarter filing of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Representatives from the manufacturer indicate that they continue to negotiate with other firms... Read More

Judge Carol E. Higbee upheld an $11.1 million jury verdict, which resolved a transvaginal mesh lawsuit filed in 2008 on behalf of a woman and her husband. Johnson & Johnson and the company’s subsidiary, Ethicon, had sought to overturn the verdict. However, Judge Higbee rejected... Read More

Covidien has announced the company will take a $180 million hit in the third quarter, to pay costs associated with transvaginal mesh lawsuits. In a July 11 report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the medical device manufacturer discussed the situation. “Covidien currently is... Read More

Vaginal mesh, also known as pelvic or surgical mesh, is under increasing scrutiny due to its tendency to cause incontinence, sexual dysfunction, pelvic wall perforation and painful revision surgery. Now, a recent study has revealed that the vaginal mesh removal surgery may be just as... Read More