Future Medical Care for Mesh Patients Many of the women that my firm represents in Transvaginal Mesh lawsuits have had multiple surgeries for mesh removal and still suffer pain on a daily basis. I have had many tearful meetings with these clients about their future…
State troopers have a new trick up their sleeves to catch motorists who are texting while driving. The N.C. Highway Patrol has partnered with the N.C. Department of Transportation to use yellow DOT trucks for spotting texters on the road, according to a report by…
Judge Joseph Goodwin of the United States District Court for Southern West Virginia is overseeing the multi-district litigation (MDL) involving thousands of the lawsuits filed over C.R. Bard’s pelvic mesh devices for pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence. Bard faces more than 12,400
Many people love to decorate for the holidays, a huge percentage with indoor and outdoor lighting, but there are many dangers for the unwary. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has compiled statistics that indicate an average of 160 structure fires result from holiday lighting failures…
The holidays are upon us and this time of year means that the U. S. Public Interest Research Group has issued its latest list of dangerous and defective toys. U.S. PIRG has been compiling and publishing the list for almost 30 years, and it is…
Over 70,000 lawsuits are pending in the U.S. federal courts against seven different manufacturers of transvaginal mesh implants. Ethicon, Boston Scientific, C.R. Bard, American Medical Systems (AMS), Coloplast, Cook, and Neomedic all marketed these products to OB physicians for implantation in women
It only took a Miami jury only four hours to find Boston Scientific guilty of failing to warn doctors and patients about the risks associated with their defectively designed Pinnacle pelvic-organ implants. This verdict was handed down two weeks ago. This was the…
At least 139 people have been injured as a result of shrapnel shot out from defective Takata airbags. And, millions of vehicles are now on NHTSA’s recall list because of the Takata airbag recall. Honda had to recall 5.1 million vehicles equipped with Takata airbags.…
This week a settlement was announced in the thousands of lawsuits pending against Stryker over the recalled Rejuvenate and AGB ll hip implants. These Stryker implants were recalled in 2012 as a result of a high failure rate due to metallosis. The Stryker implants are…
After months of mediation, Stryker Corporation has agreed to settle more than 4000 lawsuits over its defective Rejuvenate and ABG II hip implants. The suits had been consolidated in New Jersey state court and a Minneapolis Federal court. Under the terms of the agreement Stryker…
After an 8-week trial and twelve hours of deliberation over three days a Dallas jury returned a defense verdict in the first DePuy Pinnacle bellwether trial. The jury in this case concluded that the metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip was not defective and that the injuries suffered…
The jury has begun deliberations after an eight-week bellwether trial in Dallas accusing Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopedic division of negligence, gross negligence, defective product design, failure to warn and violations of the Consumer Protection Act for its actions marketing its line of…
