Updates

The Rottenstein Law Group LLP a New York-based law firm that represents hundreds of plaintiffs in transvaginal mesh lawsuits acknowledges a study comparing the results of pelvic prolapse repair using vaginal mesh and native tissue. The results of a prospective randomized trial which were reported by Dr. Robert E. Gutman… Read more

The vaginal mesh lawyers at Rottenstein Law Group note recent reports that C.R. Bard “saw its first-quarter profits plunge” as a result of a charge Bard took for lawsuits filed against the company over its transvaginal mesh products. The Rottenstein Law Group a vaginal mesh law firm notes that medical device manufacturer… Read more

Four C.R. Bard Avaulta mesh lawsuits were the first cases selected this month for June 2013 bellwether trials in the transvaginal mesh multidistrict litigation according to court records. The Rottenstein Law Group which accepts clients in transvaginal mesh lawsuits is closely monitoring developments in surgical mesh trials. “The scheduling of… Read more

A New Jersey state court jury has awarded more than $11 million in combined compensatory and punitive damages to a woman claiming Ethicon’s Prolift vaginal mesh implant caused her to suffer serious debilitating injury according to sources from RLG. Concluding the first trial of one of approximately 2 000 personal injury cases pending in New… Read more

On the heels of a Feb. 25 $3.35 million transvaginal mesh verdict in New Jersey Superior Court RLG  a transvaginal mesh law firm assesses what the verdict means for the more than 1 800 other cases pending in the United States. Linda Gross 47 a nurse from South… Read more

A New Jersey state court jury today awarded $3.35 million to 47-year-old Linda Gross a woman whose life took a significant turn for the worse in 2006 after she received a Prolift vaginal mesh implant manufactured by Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon unit. Concluding the trial of the first of the 2… Read more

The jury in the bellwether Prolift vaginal mesh trial in New Jersey Superior Court has interrupted its deliberations to have the court reporter read back the testimony of Linda Gross the claimant who alleges that the mesh implant she received in 2006 severely injured her. In Mrs. Gross’ testimony—read aloud today at the jury’s request by… Read more

As part of the closing arguments they delivered at the trial of a vaginal mesh lawsuit in New Jersey Superior Court today the attorneys for plaintiff Linda Gross 47 showed the jury e-mails and re-played videotaped deposition testimony showing Ethicon’s repeated decisions to ignore reports of complications related to its Prolift vaginal mesh in a… Read more

A physician who treated the claimant in a vaginal mesh lawsuit this week testified in New Jersey Superior Court that a mass he removed from that claimant’s body included polypropylene mesh. Dr. James Raders a urogynecologist in Florida took the stand as a witness for the defendant at the trial of a case brought against Johnson… Read more

The makers of a transvaginal mesh product that has sparked thousands of personal injury lawsuits ignored the advice of an expert who warned them that the product was dangerous according to that expert’s testimony in New Jersey Superior Court earlier this week. On Feb. 4 2013 Dr. Uwe Klinge… Read more

Linda Gross’s life took a significant turn for the worse after she got a Prolift vaginal mesh implant according to her testimony at the trial of her vaginal mesh lawsuit case against the manufacturer of that vaginal mesh product the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon. A 47-year-old former nurse Gross testified that Ethicon’s… Read more

In New Jersey Superior Court the Ethicon doctor who was in charge when Ethicon’s Gynecare Prolift vaginal mesh was first put on the market recently testified that—before the product’s launch—she was concerned about the mesh’s capacity for erosion and retraction and she was aware of the injures those complications could cause. The witness… Read more

Ethicon executives’ decision to market and sell the company’s Gynecare Prolift vaginal mesh product without first obtaining FDA clearance was negligent according to the testimony of Dr. Peggy Pence a pharmaceutical regulations expert who testified this week at the trial of a vaginal mesh lawsuit alleging the Prolift caused 47-year-old Linda Gross serious… Read more

As one of the first trials for a Gynecare Prolift vaginal mesh lawsuit progresses in Atlantic City N.J. RLG reports on updates regarding Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon’s admission that the company knew the vaginal mesh had serious problems before it even went to market according to court documents. … Read more

RLG is troubled by a Johnson & Johnson official’s testimony in a vaginal mesh trial that a prototype of a vaginal mesh implant failed in 20 percent of women within six months before the device even went to market in 2005 as reported in a Jan. 11 Bloomberg article. J&J subsidiary Ethicon… Read more

Opening statements are on course to begin tomorrow in the first trial of one of the hundreds of cases included in a Gynecare vaginal mesh mass tort in New Jersey Superior Court. Jury selection began January 7 in a case alleging that a vaginal mesh product called Gynecare Prolift caused 47-year-old Linda… Read more

The Rottenstein Law Group expects that in the first quarter of 2013 Johnson & Johnson will complete its halting of sales of four transvaginal mesh products a process it began in the middle of 2012 amid reports of serious side effects. This is based on a June 5 2012 … Read more

A new imaging system could help physicians evaluate a woman’s suitability for pelvic organ prolapse repair using transvaginal surgical mesh the Rottenstein Law Group reports. Medical equipment manufacturer Imalux said researchers at the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System used its Niris 1300e Imaging System to image previously placed surgical mesh… Read more

The National Health Service of the United Kingdom reported last month that it will offer better guidance and support for NHS surgeons performing vaginal tape and mesh implants in an effort to reduce the serious side effects that patients can experience after surgery for stress incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse. The Rottenstein… Read more

Trials  of transvaginal mesh lawsuits against three major mesh manufacturers will begin Dec. 3 2013 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia according to the minutes of a Dec. 6 status conference. The minutes show that the West Virginia federal court scheduled as the first… Read more