Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuit

Surgical mesh lawsuit advertisements seen on TV, online or heard on the radio have alerted 99 women surveyed in a recent study of the dangers associated with the vaginal implants, but three quarters of them said they would still consider the mesh if urged to do so by a physician, according to resear...

A group of Canadian women gathered to protest outside a local hospital this past weekend to warn about the risk for a vaginal implant to cause pain, infection and other injuries alleged in a growing number of surgical mesh lawsuits. According to a May 12th, 2013 report from The Star Phoenix, wome...

The parent company of American Medical Systems, which is currently facing thousands of surgical mesh lawsuits, has reported a 6 percent decline in sales of its medical devices for the first quarter of 2013 when compared to last year, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to an article publis...

With news of plunging profits in its first quarter, C.R. Bard Inc. may be the latest medical device manufacturer to feel the heat of mounting vaginal mesh lawsuits, MassDevice.com reports. According to the article published April 24th, 2013, the company’s first quarter earnings reflected a near...

In one of the most recent vaginal mesh lawsuit horror stories to be told in the U.S., an Albany woman says the complications she has suffered from a surgery she underwent 10 years ago has forced her to “stop into doctor’s offices I really didn’t know at all because I was in such pain” among ...

American Medical Systems, Inc.,   a subsidiary of Endo Health Solutions, Inc., has been named in  5,100 transvaginal mesh lawsuits, most of which have been filed in a federal multidistrict litigation underway in U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia.  During a conference call l...

  A South Dakota nurse has been awarded $7.75 million in punitive damages in the nation’s first Ethicon mesh lawsuit to go to trial.  Last week, the New Jersey Superior Court jury hearing the Ethicon lawsuit awarded the same Plaintiff $3.35 million in compensatory damages, after finding t...

One Atlanta woman says she started considering a vaginal mesh lawsuit after the 2006 procedure she underwent to treat pelvic organ prolapse (POP) allegedly left her with infection and in pain, preventing her from doing what she once loved—like playing actively with her young grandchildren and work...

A western Canadian newspaper is reporting on more than 300 women from across the country who are about to file a class-action vaginal mesh lawsuit claiming injuries stemming from the surgical material. According to the Feb. 8 report from the Winnipeg Free Press, the case will be brought to a Winn...

Officials at DePuy Orthopaedics certainly have their work cut out for them this month as the company prepares for the first U.S. trials in the DePuy ASR litigation, slated to begin the first three weeks of January. Expected to last three weeks, the trial date for the first DePuy ASR hip lawsuit t...