Transvaginal Mesh

The final bellwether product liability trial against C.R. Bard has been rescheduled yet again. After a November and December date, the trial of Carolyn Jones has now been scheduled for January 10 in the federal courthouse where 40,000 transvaginal mesh lawsuits are consolidated in front of Judge Joseph R. Goodwin. […]

In many ways, they keep doctors on schedule. Many say they can’t operate without them. We’re referring to sales representatives, who introduce doctors and hospitals to pharmaceuticals and medical devices. A sales rep might even be in the operating room to teach a doctor how to use a new device. Keep […]

C.R. Bard, one of six makers of transvaginal mesh, wants to recoup the cost of preparing for a trial that was dropped by the plaintiff shortly before it was to begin. The Linda Rizzo product liability case was scheduled for October 8 as one of the bellwether cases against each […]

Almost everyone has heard advertisements for lawyers representing women damaged by transvaginal mesh. And the response has been overwhelming. There are almost 35,000 cases filed in one court alone, the federal court in Charleston, West Virginia. Thousands more are filed around the country naming primarily six manufacturers – Ethicon ( […]

We will never know just how much Wanda Queen was offered by C.R. Bard to settle her defective Bard Avaulta Solo transvaginal mesh lawsuit. All we do know is that on the morning that opening arguments were set to be heard, August 21, in the Charleston, West Virginia federal court, […]

The entire trial took just 11 days. Donna Cisson sued C.R. Bard Co. of New Jersey, maker of the Avaulta Plus transvaginal mesh implanted in her in 2009 to treat pelvic organ prolapse. Last week, the jury awarded the 55-year-old Cisson $250,000 in compensatory damages and $1.75 million in punitive […]

With more than 27,000 transvaginal mesh cases consolidated in one federal court in West Virginia, the first bellwether case is now in its second week. Donna Cisson, 55 was implanted with a Bard Avaulta Plus Posterior BioSynthetic Support System in May 2009. She has undergone several removal operations after pain […]

Saying this was the first mistrial he had declared in his 20 years on the bench, U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin ended a product liability trial naming C.R. Bard after a witness for the plaintiffs made a statement that could not be undone. Dr. Lennox Hoyte, a female pelvic […]

It is a startling revelation concealed in court documents – C.R. Bard, one of the six primary plastic mesh manufacturers – knowingly sold vaginal and hernia mesh that was made of a material unsuitable for human implantation. What’s worse was that court documents show executives knew the Marlex polypropylene should […]

The first federal transvaginal mesh trial that names manufacturer C.R. Bard begins this week in Charleston, West Virginia. Plaintiff Donna Cisson was implanted with the Bard Avaulta Plus Posterior on May 8, 2009 in Toccoa, Georgia. Bard Urological, a division of C.R. Bard, Inc. designed, labeled, manufactured and sold the […]