Transvaginal Mesh

It is still uncertain why and how many American Medical Systems (AMS) transvaginal mesh victims are affected, but Endo Health Solutions Inc, which bought the company, has agreed to settle a small number of AMS cases. Endo has agreed to pay $54.5 million to settle product liability or defective product […]

Cook Medical has just been added to the name of corporate defendants consolidated in Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) in Charleston, West Virginia. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) added Cook on July 11 and with it transferred 13 complaints from eight different districts. Cook joins five other major transvaginal mesh […]

The American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS) has issued a position statement that pushes back against any restrictions to ban surgical options for the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse (POP), including transvaginal surgical mesh cleared for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The AUGS position states that it is […]

First Coast News in Jacksonville recently aired a story about four women who had the misfortune of being implanted with surgical mesh, three to treat pelvic organ prolapse or incontinence and one for hernia repair.  Unfortunately, all of them had a very bad outcome. “The pain was severe enough that […]

It is so interesting to delve into how a corporation thinks. Not in that they think like a person – even though the U.S. Supreme Court recently gave corporations First Amendment rights – but in that they groupthink. Take the case of transvaginal mesh. A trial is underway in Superior […]

The manufacturers of defective medical devices have been the focus of a number of lawsuits filed by the Mass Tort Unit of Searcy Denney this week. A new lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, against Mentor Worldwide (a Delaware […]

Today, attorneys Kelly Hyman and Brenda Fulmer filed two more individual lawsuits against Mentor Corporation relating to its ObTape transobturator product which was withdrawn from the market in March of 2006.  The first case was filed on behalf of a Gulf County, Florida woman who was implanted with the defective […]

Victims of transvaginal mesh have additional time to file a product liability action. Rulings in multidistrict litigation (MDL) have extended the discovery time deadlines in the pre-trial process and pushed back a deadline for the lawsuits to begin. The Honorable Judge Joseph R. Goodwin, in the Southern District of West […]

This is a tough one to believe. A Minneapolis doctor issued a press release going on the attack against plaintiffs’ lawyers who are representing women seriously injured by synthetic mesh used to treat prolapse and incontinence Dr. Jon Nielsen doesn’t let the facts get in the way. Nielsen, a doctor […]

With all of the bad news coming out about the dangers of defective synthetic transvaginal mesh made of polypropylene used to treat prolapse and incontinence as well as the thousands of lawsuits waiting to be heard in state and federal courts filed by severely injured women looking to regain their […]