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…
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…
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…
In June 2012, Johnson & Johnson made the decision to remove their defective transvaginal mesh (TVM) medical device from the global market. Though the medical device manufacturer cites future market…
The latest news relating to transvaginal mesh lawsuits involves a new court document filed in a federal court in West Virginia. The court document relates to the rescheduling of forthcoming…
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 what is an unfortunate distraction in the Johnson & Johnson and Ethicon multidistrict litigation (MDL) in West Virginia, news of telephone scammers contacting women about filing transvaginal mesh lawsuits…
The first transvaginal mesh lawsuit in the Ethicon multidistrict litigation (MDL) in a West Virginia federal court has reportedly discontinued proceedings following a ruling for dismissal handed down by the…
In April, women and their families held a protest at the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) annual meeting in New Jersey. They were protesting transvaginal mesh devices manufactured by J&J, and…
Johnson & Johnson and their subsidiary, Ethicon, agreed to settle 4 vaginal mesh lawsuits. The medical device manufacturer faces thousands of transvaginal mesh lawsuits, but for the time being, has…