While it is not official, Bloomberg is reporting that Coloplast A/S, one of the smaller manufacturers of transvaginal meshes, is said to be willing to settle a number of lawsuits for $16 million. Three different individuals tipped the news outlet, but none were reportedly authorized to speak. The Danish company […]
Category: Defective Medical Devices
In 2011 Endo Health Solutions bought American Medical Systems for $2.9 billion. That may have been a mistake because since then, the number of product liability lawsuits naming AMS over its transvaginal mesh has grown to 22,000 cases. Now the company is looking ahead to the impact on its bottom […]
Even if you eventually win, being involved in transvaginal mesh litigation is an expensive proposition, so Endo Health Solutions has put aside at least $520 million to prepare for any outcome. Endo purchased American Medical Systems (AMS) in 2011 for $2.9 billion and in doing so acquired the AMS product […]
The evidence seemed overwhelming. The transvaginal tape (TVT made by Ethicon, a division of Johnson & Johnson) had caused a foreign body reaction inside Carolyn Lewis of Texas, the woman suing the healthcare giant. Her trial began February 10 and was the first federal case to be heard against Johnson […]
Two years ago, the Food and Drug Association (FDA) was still uncertain about how to address growing concerns over the effects of metal-on-metal (MoM) hip implants. So, on June 27, 2012, the FDA’s Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices Panel convened an Advisory Committee in order to hear experts and the public […]
This blog is a continuation of “The FDA’s MoM Panel” which you should read first in order to have a clear idea of what happened at this important event. Click here to go back to Part I. The Manufacturers All major manufacturers still selling MoM hip implants were invited to […]
Spoliation of evidence has been defined by the courts as “the destruction or significant alteration of evidence, or the failure to preserve property for another’s use as evidence in pending or reasonably foreseeable litigation.” The concept behind this word defies one of the basic tenants in our legal system – […]
Merck & Co has reportedly agreed to pay $100 million to settle thousands of product liability cases filed by women injured by the NuvaRing contraceptive medical device. The agreement will provide an average benefit of $58,000 to those who suffered deep vein thrombosis (blood clots), pulmonary embolism from a blood […]
Two separate medical cases, published in leading medical journals the same week, highlight mysterious symptoms that were eventually attributed to metal poisoning from a metal-on-metal (MoM) hip prosthesis. A paper published February 8, in the British medical journal, The Lancet, described a German patient’s quest for an accurate diagnosis. His […]
Plaintiffs’ lawyers handling thousands of transvaginal mesh cases filed in West Virginia have proven their contention that Johnson & Johnson (J&J) mishandled thousands of documents necessary for the pending litigation. Now what? Cheryl Eifert, a U.S. Magistrate judge from Charleston, W.V. ruled this week that the healthcare giant improperly lost […]
