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On February 9, 2009, a North Carolina resident was implanted with the Obtryx Transobturator Mid-Urethral sling. This patient filed suit against the maker of her vaginal mesh, Boston Scientific (“Boston”), asserting claims of breach of express and implied warranties, negligence, punitive damages, and strict liability (design defect, failure to warn, and […]

In November 2011, a Maryland woman underwent surgery at Calvert Memorial Hospital in Maryland where Dr. Jeffrey Welgoss implanted her with a sling manufactured by Ethicon. The patient asserts that she continued to experience pain and discomfort after the removal of the sling and that her Ethicon TVT sling has also caused […]

In August 2005, a patient was implanted with a Bard Recovery Filter System in order to catch blood clots or “thrombi” traveling from the lower portions of his body toward his heart and lungs. Unfortunately, the device failed and migrated to the patient’s heart, perforating the organs and requiring open […]

On February 23, 2010, Sharon Pelkey was implanted with the Advantage Fit System to treat her stress urinary incontinence. The surgery was performed by Dr. James Hamilton and took place in a hospital in Kilmarnock, Virginia. Ms. Pelkey has filed suit against the maker of the Fit system, Boston Scientific […]

Women may only learn the risk of uterine cancer caused by power morcellation until it’s too late. The dangers associated with power morcellators are not necessarily caused by the devices themselves, but rather, with an unintended consequence of this type of gynecologic surgery. Laparoscopic power morcellators are used during hysterectomies […]

Today Stryker announced that enrollment in the proposed Rejuvenate and ABG II hip implant settlement program has reached 95% and the company will be following through with its commitment to resolve over 4,000 lawsuits over the recalled hip implants. Had enrollment fallen short of 95%, Stryker could have walked away […]

Since transvaginal mesh was first introduced into the market over 20 years ago, many hundreds of thousands of women have undergone operations where doctors have inserted vaginal mesh devices, threading them through incisions in the vagina to fortify pelvic muscles that failed to support internal organs or to treat incontinence, […]

Since transvaginal mesh was first introduced into the market over 20 years ago, many hundreds of thousands of women have undergone operations where doctors have inserted vaginal mesh devices, threading them through incisions in the vagina to fortify pelvic muscles that failed to support internal organs or to treat incontinence, […]

All filed federal product liability lawsuits claiming injuries with transvaginal mesh or bladder slings used for repair of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) are centralized. In February 2012, multidistrict litigation (MDL) cases against the mesh manufacturers began. This legal process streamlines hundreds of individual claims […]

Multidistrict litigation (MDL) is a consolidation of civil cases transferred from different jurisdictions around the country to a single U.S. District Court to achieve certain pre-trial efficiencies. All transferred cases must be marked by common fact questions, and are overseen by a federal judge. The aim of this consolidation is to preserve […]