Fast-tracking medical device approvals is tying up a $2 million jury verdict. The plaintiff in a transvaginal mesh lawsuit won a $2 million award, but now the award is under…
American Medical Systems settled nearly 100 transvaginal mesh lawsuits. According to a court document recently filed in the American Medical Systems multidistrict litigation (MDL), Judge Joseph R. Goodwin granted a…
The federal judge who is overseeing the pretrial proceedings in the 7 transvaginal mesh multidistrict litigations (MDLs) urged the defendants in each of the MDLs to settle the tens of…
As mandated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), American Medical Systems (AMS) has started its transvaginal mesh study by enrolling its first participant. The transvaginal mesh manufacturer announced…
Published May 19, 2014 by Digital Journal Thousands of transvaginal mesh lawsuits filed against American Medical Systems, Inc. continue to move forward in a consolidated litigation underway in U.S. District…
Published May 16, 2014 by Digital Journal The federal judge overseeing thousands of transvaginal mesh lawsuits filed against Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon, Inc. unit has sanctioned the companies' attorneys for…
Published May 13, 2014 by Digital Journal Carey Danis & Lowe, an experienced law firm representing women in vaginal mesh lawsuits, is pleased to report that the U.S. Food &…
The parent company of American Medical Systems, the medical device manufacturer whose transvaginal mesh products are currently the subject of thousands of lawsuits in West Virginia, received a warning letter…
In March, the judge presiding over the American Medical Systems multidistrict litigation (MDL) in West Virginia rescheduled two of the bellwether cases. The lawsuits were originally in line to be…
A new pretrial order document has been filed in two of the six transvaginal mesh multidistrict litigations (MDLs) in a federal court in West Virginia. Filed in the Ethicon MDL…