Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuit

Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has been repeatedly criticized by the media, experts and congressmen for its medical device approval process. Calls for regulatory reform have been become commonplace given the wave of medical devices approved by the FDA that have since pro...

PRESS RELEASE: Bernstein Liebhard LLP reports that on February 7, 2012, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ordered that three separate pelvic mesh MDLs be consolidated before one judge given that each group of lawsuits, which involve various models of surgical mesh manufactured b...

PRESS RELEASE: Bernstein Liebhard LLP reports that on January 31, 2012, Democratic Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts introduced a bill (HR3847) that would block medical devices from utilizing the 510(k) process in order to receive market approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administrati...

PRESS RELEASE: Bernstein Liebhard LLP reports that on January 20, 2012, Representative Henry Waxman of California led House Democrats from the Energy and Commerce Committee in writing a letter to several chairmen, requesting that the Committee hold hearings to review the safety of medical devices...

On January 20, 2012, Representative Henry Waxman of California led House Democrats from the Energy and Commerce Committee in writing a letter to several chairmen, requesting that the Committee hold hearings to review the safety of medical devices implanted into patients as well as request documents ...

On January 12, 2012, Judge Carol E. Higbee held case management conferences in the In re Pelvic Mesh/Gynecare and In re Pelvic Mesh/Bard Litigations.  Judge Higbee presides over both centralized actions, which involve all of the transvaginal mesh lawsuits filed in New Jersey state court.  Bernstei...

PRESS RELEASE: Bernstein Liebhard LLP reports that on January 3, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) ordered Johnson & Johnson and C.R. Bard Inc., manufacturers of vaginal mesh implants, to study rates of side effects such as organ damage, infection and painful sexual inte...

PRESS RELEASE: Bernstein Liebhard LLP endorses a November 21, 2011 Joint Committee Opinion issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (“ACOG”) and the American Urogynecologic Society (“AUGS”), recommending that the use of transvaginal mesh for the treatment of pelvi...

PRESS RELEASE: Bernstein Liebhard LLP reports that the Honorable Carol E. Higbee, who is overseeing the consolidated transvaginal mesh lawsuits, In re Pelvic Mesh/Gynecare Litigation (No. 006339-10 (NJ. Super. Ct.)), pending in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Atlantic County, set a trial date o...

On October 20, 2011, Bloomberg News published an article detailing the history of events leading up to the recent surge in vaginal mesh lawsuits currently facing manufacturers, such as Johnson & Johnson.  These vaginal mesh implants are used to treat urinary incontinence, or pelvic organ prolap...