Archive for Vaginal Mesh Implants
Carey Danis & Lowe Pelvic Mesh Lawyers Weigh in on Ethicon MDL 2327 and Gynecare Prolift Mesh Lawsuit Removal Request
Published April 25, 2013 by PR Web St. Louis, Missouri (PRWEB) April 25, 2013 Pelvic mesh lawyers at Carey Danis & Lowe continue to follow Ethicon MDL 2327 proceedings currently taking place in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, as the law firm represents women who have been injured by defective pelvic mesh. A recent update in the Ethicon MDL involves a pretrial order issued by Chief Judge Robert C. Chambers and U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin. The order pertains to the judge responsible for Continue Reading
Flores v. Ethicon: Transvaginal Mesh Trial Memorandum Opinion & Order
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF WEST VIRGINIA CHARLESTON DIVISION DAWN FLORES, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:12-cv-01804 ETHICON, INC., et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Pending before the court is the plaintiffs’ Motion to Remand [Docket 13]. The plaintiffs also seek sanctions. For the reasons discussed below, the motion to remand and the request for sanctions are DENIED. I. Background This case is one of several thousand assigned to me by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (hereinafter the “MDL Continue Reading
Ethicon Vaginal Mesh MDL Update: Defense Fact Sheets Due in Early April for Ethicon Discovery Pool Cases
Submit Your Claim Transvaginal mesh lawsuits have been consolidated into five multi-district litigation (MDL) cases in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin is overseeing the proceedings for the Ethicon MDL and four other transvaginal mesh MDLs. Cases have been brought forth against Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon unit, in particular for the defective Ethicon Gynecare Prolift vaginal mesh product. In addition to the Ethicon MDL, vaginal mesh lawsuits have been consolidated into MDLs involving C.R. Bard, American Medical Systems, Continue Reading
Gynecare Prolift Lawsuit News: Gross v. Gynecare Jury Rules that Johnson & Johnson to Pay Over $7 Million in Punitive Damages
Submit Your Claim Last week, Carey Danis & Lowe released an update on the Gynecare Prolift trial in New Jersey, and wrote that Linda Gross was awarded $3.35 million in a case involving Johnson & Johnson’s defective Gynecare Prolift vaginal mesh. On February 25, the jury announced Gross’s compensatory award, and later also ruled that Johnson & Johnson should pay $7.76 million in punitive damages on top of the compensatory award. Gross is a resident of South Dakota, and a former nurse, who received an implant of Johnson & Continue Reading
Plaintiff Awarded $3.35 Million in Gynecare Prolift Lawsuit: Encouraging Verdict for Victims of Defective Vaginal Mesh Products
Submit Your Claim In a Gynecare Prolift vaginal mesh lawsuit being heard in a New Jersey Superior court, the plaintiff, Linda Gross, was awarded $3.35 million. The trial, overseen by Judge Carol Higbee in Atlantic City, New Jersey, involves a South Dakota resident who claims to have been in severe and unmitigated pain and to have endured 18 operations to remove and repair damages caused by Ethicon’s Gynecare Prolift vaginal mesh. Though the jury was split in their final decision in Gross’s case, according to a Bloomberg News report, Continue Reading
Closing Arguments Delivered in Gynecare Prolift Trial in New Jersey
Submit Your Claim A decision by the jury should be delivered soon regarding a lawsuit filed in New Jersey against Johnson & Johnson and Ethicon, the developer and manufacturer of the Gynecare Prolift vaginal mesh product. Late last week, both sides shared their closing arguments, which leaves the jury to deliberate on the testimony presented before them since the start of the trial on January 10, 2013. The case is Gross v. Gynecare Inc., and is being heard in a SuperiorCourtofAtlanticCounty in Atlantic City, New Jersey by Judge Carol Continue Reading
Update on Ethicon MDL in U.S. District Court: Over 3000 Plaintiffs Vaginal Mesh Lawsuits Consolidated into MDL
Submit Your Claim Approximately 3397 cases have been consolidated into the Ethicon multi-district litigation (MDL) being heard in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. The Ethicon MDL is being presided over by U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin. In the last pre-trial court order issued by Judge Goodwin, a minor update was given pertaining to the format of the Plaintiff Profile Form, which are documents that release a plaintiff’s medical records for examination. The next Status Conference in the Ethicon MDL will be held Continue Reading
First Gynecare Prolift Lawsuit Trial Moves Forward in New Jersey Court: Johnson & Johnson Official Concedes to High Failure Rate of Defective Gynecare Prolift Mesh
Submit Your Claim The first trial of 1,800 regarding Johnson & Johnson’s defective Gynecare Prolift vaginal mesh was heard in a New Jersey state court in Atlantic City last week. The trial, known as Gross v. Gynecare Inc., concerns a nurse from South Dakota named Linda Gross, who claims that she underwent 18 revision surgeries to first remove the Gynecare Prolift mesh, and then to repair the damages caused by Johnson & Johnson’s notorious surgical mesh product, according to a report published by Bloomberg. A Johnson & Johnson company Continue Reading
Plaintiffs in Mentor ObTape MDL No. 2004 Claim Serious Injury from Defective Vaginal Sling
Submit Your Claim Mentor’s ObTape is a surgically implanted medical device used to treat patients suffering from stress urinary continence (SUI). In individuals with SUI, pelvic region muscles have weakened, and begin to put uncomfortable pressure on the bladder. Surgically implanted medical devices, such as Mentor’s ObTape vaginal sling, are meant to act as supporting structures along the vaginal wall. Though vaginal slings have long been used to treat SUI, Mentor’s ObTape vaginal sling proved to be defective. The result was serious pain and suffering for many patients who Continue Reading
Update on Defective Transvaginal Mesh MDLs in U.S. District Court in West Virginia
Submit Your Claim Lawsuits involving transvaginal mesh and other surgical implants used to treat stress urinary incontinence (SUI) or pelvic organ prolapse (POP) have been consolidated into five individual Multi-District Litigation (MDL) cases in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, overseen by Chief Judge Joseph R. Goodwin. The MDLs involve lawsuits that have been filed against C.R. Bard, Inc., American Medical Systems, Inc., Boston Scientific Corporation, Ethicon Inc., and Coloplast Corp. Parties were convened for a Status Conference Hearing on December 6, 2012, with Continue Reading
