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…
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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…
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…
C.R. Bard, a manufacturer of medical devices used to treat pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI), recently settled a vaginal mesh lawsuit. Selected as a bellwether case,…
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…
In an atypical statement of opinion, the federal judge who is overseeing the thousands of transvaginal mesh lawsuits in a West Virginia court advised mesh manufacturer, C.R. Bard, to consider…
In 2012, C.R. Bard faced its first transvaginal mesh lawsuit. The trial took place in a California court, and resulted in the jury deciding to award the plaintiff $5.5 million….
Vaginal mesh lawsuits filed by women who have suffered serious injuries after using medical products manufactured by either C.R. Bard and Ethicon continue to increase in a New Jersey state…
C.R. Bard offered a $21 million transvaginal mesh lawsuit settlement that could impact around 500 cases. The plaintiffs who filed these lawsuits against C.R. Bard did so after sustaining serious…
Feeling that more progress must be made in the C.R. Bard transvaginal mesh multidistrict litigation (MDL), the presiding judge decided to begin reviewing similar cases in bulk sets, what the…