A federal judge overseeing the multidistrict litigation against the Johnson & Johnson-owned subsidiary Ethicon over their vaginal mesh implants has ordered first trial to begin in August 2014. There are more than 10,000 Ethicon Prolift mesh lawsuits currently pending in the federal court system. Vaginal... Read More

Recent research conducted by a team at Stanford’s School of Medicine found that exposure to large quantities of Medtronic Infuse recombinant bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) was linked with an increased rate of cancer. The results of the study, which highlight the Medtronic Infuse cancer risk,... Read More

Plaintiff Angela White, a 27 year-old Tampa, Florida resident, filed a Mirena IUD lawsuit against Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, in the Southern District of Illinois on September 17. The plaintiff claims the defendant distributed Mirena without properly disclosing the various side effects of the product, including... Read More

The makers of a vaginal mesh implant have reached a settlement with a woman whose lawsuit was set for a state court trial in Atlantic City later this month. C.R. Bard's transvaginal mesh lawsuit settlement will reportedly provide compensation of an undisclosed amount to a... Read More

Alleged Da Vinci robotic surgery complications have resulted in a growing number of injury reports and lawsuits nationwide. Now, a new study finds that problems with the revolutionary da Vinci robotic system may be underreported, asking the question: Despite numerous success stories and glowing reports from doctors,... Read More

As part of the global DePuy ASR hip recall, Johnson & Johnson pulled 93,000 of its faulty metal-on-metal implants off the market in 2010, including at least 37,000 in the United States. Now, legal insiders tell Bloomberg that J&J is considering paying more than $3... Read More

An Oregon district judge ruled that the bulk of the claims in an Infuse bone grafting device lawsuit will survive preemption motions filed by Medtronic, in regards to the manufacturer’s duties under federal law. The suit in question was filed by Richard D. Alton, who... Read More

Johnson & Johnson announced another recall last week, this time for its antipsychotic Risperdal Consta, due to concerns that the drug may not be sterile.  The Risperdal recall comes on the heels of dozens of recalls in recent years, costing the Brunswick, N.J.-based company hundreds... Read More