With hundreds if not thousands of lawsuits filed against transvaginal mesh manufacturers, the first trial date has been set for cases to be heard against C.R. Bard Inc. February 5, 2013 is the first date set for bellwether trials filed by women who claims injuries after they were implanted with […]
Category: Transvaginal Mesh
The Mentor ObTape Sling is a transobturator vaginal sling, which was manufacturer by Mentor Corporation and was implanted in thousands of women to treat Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI). Mentor’s ObTape replaced Mentor’s Uratape product. Uratape performed so poorly that Mentor quit selling it after an embarrassingly short time on the […]
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) rarely responds to negative news, which it’s been experiencing a lot of lately, usually relying on the news cycles to wash away unfavorable reports. But in an unusual move, a J&J spokesman recently did defend the company from the latest blow – that the health care […]
Over the past year, lawyers who represent thousands of women injured by defective transvaginal mesh have faced difficult choices with regard to the proper venue for filing individual lawsuits. These medical devices have been widely used (and perhaps overused) to treat women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) or pelvic organ […]
