A woman who suffered serious injuries from a transvaginal mesh implant received a $100 million award in a jury verdict. The trial occurred in a state court in Delaware in…
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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…
Creating a medical product with materials not intended for medical use is a dangerous practice. A manufacturer of transvaginal mesh products, Boston Scientific, is purported to have done just that…
In the latest mesh lawsuit update regarding the Boston Scientific multidistrict litigation (MDL) in West Virginia, US Magistrate Judge Cheryl Eifert delivered a ruling on Boston Scientific’s Motion to Quash….
The California Supreme Court recently denied the appeal of a transvaginal mesh manufacturer, C.R. Bard, who sought to annul a 2012 jury verdict awarding $5.5 million to the plaintiff in…
3,000 transvaginal mesh lawsuits could soon be resolved. Boston Scientific proposed a $119 million transvaginal mesh settlement. The medical device manufacturer included the settlement in an SEC filing in late…
In the Boston Scientific multidistrict litigation (MDL) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, Judge Joseph R. Goodwin has selected four bellwether cases. After an…
When Judge Goodwin said he was going to “kick it into high gear”, he really meant it. According to a pretrial order (PTO) filed in early April 2015, Judge Joseph…
Published May 10, 2012 on InjuryLawyer The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has aggregated transvaginal mesh lawsuits from across the country into four multidistrict litigations (MDLs), relating to four…
Published May 23, 2012 on InjuryBoard On February 7, 2012, all federal lawsuits concerning transvaginal mesh products were consolidated into one court in the Southern District of West Virginia before…