According to recent reports, there is good news to share with injured women about a major vaginal mesh and bladder sling manufacturer announcing settlement to resolve their serious injury and product liability claims. Bard Announces Avaulta Vaginal Mesh Settlement C.R. Bard announces settlement of large groups of injury and product…
The massive transvaginal mesh injury lawsuits has been slowly winding its way through both the federal and state court system, over the past 4-5 years. The unwieldy personal injury and defective product liability litigation, which now by some estimates tops 100,000 filed lawsuits by injured and affected women, has been…
Johnson and Johnson (J&J) the world’s largest pharmaceutical and medical device maker is hammered in another loss in the on going transvaginal mesh wars. In the latest of a series of trials held in state and federal court, the jury has awarded $5.7 million verdict against J&J and its Ethicon…
After a hard fought, protracted and bitter fight that has consumed the last 5 years, the Bard Avaulta transvaginal mesh litigation is finally heading for a global settlement. U.S. District Judge, John Goodwin, who presiding over all federal vaginal mesh lawsuits has appointed a Special Master to forge settlement talks…
There are over 75,000 women who have filed personal injury claims against the various manufacturers of the transvaginal and bladder sling products. According to sources, Johnson & Johnson has settled at least four Ethicon transvaginal mesh lawsuits. These are the first few settlements reached out of over twenty thousand personal…
Encouraging news for some women who have been injured by the transvaginal mesh debacle. Endo International Plc, the owner of AMS, has agreed to settle its product liability transvaginal mesh lawsuits that allege its line of vaginal-mesh implants caused personal injury by eroding through the vagina in some women and…
According to a Massachusetts jury, Boston Scientific’s vaginal-mesh sling was not defectively designed and the company properly warned about its health risks. This verdict marks a second victory for the company in two state trials over the vaginal mesh inserts. Jurors in state court in Woburn, Massachusetts, cleared Boston Scientific…
A Massachusetts state jury found for the defense, in the first of more than 20,000 transvaginal mesh lawsuits filed against Boston Scientific. The plaintiff, Diane Albright, claimed that Boston Scientific Pinnacle transvaginal mesh was defective and caused her to suffer significant and painful pelvic injuries. The Massachusetts jury found that…
Boston Scientific is exposed to more than 10,000 federal product liability lawsuits filed by women who experienced injuries from transvaginal mesh products implanted for repair of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) or female stress urinary incontinence (SUI). U.S. federal Judge Joseph R. Goodwin, is presiding over six federal multidistrict litigation for…
Endo Health Solutions Inc., said it will pay about $830 million to settle most transvaginal lawsuits. Thousands of injured women allege that its vaginal-mesh implants eroded, left them incontinent and made sex painful. Endo’s American Medical Systems Inc. unit reported that it’s settling about 20,000 law suit product liability injury…