‘Medical Device Injury’ Category

C.R. Bard reportedly has paid $3.6 million to a woman injured by the company’s dangerous transvaginal mesh product. The vaginal mesh lawsuit was the first case to be tried against the medical device maker.

The jury in the case awarded the injured plaintiff $5.5 million, but the court reduced the verdict to $3.6 million. After losing its appeal from the $3.6 million verdict, the...

Orthopedic surgeons are keen to learn what type of revision surgery is best for patients who are suffering injuries caused by defective metal-on-metal hip replacements. Many metal-on-metal hip implants have been recalled due to the high number of complications patients and their doctors have reported to the FDA. In hip replacement lawsuits, patients have described a number of serious injuries,...

Power morcellator lawsuits filed in federal court against Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon unit have been consolidated for pretrial proceedings. The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation transferred the Ethicon lawsuits to the federal district court for the District of Kansas. That court, said the panel, is centrally located in the middle of the country and the judge has...

A decade-long study of almost 60,000 Canadian womenreportedly has revealed that an alarming 1 in 30 women treated with transvaginal mesh (TVM) will suffer pain, bleeding or other complications so severe that a second surgery is required. The troubling findings on this medical device have been published in JAMA Surgery.

The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) reportedly has decided to conduct a probe into the power morcellator surgical device. Medical device makers have been marketing and selling the dangerous devices to hospitals and gynecologists for twenty years. Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned that the morcellator device can spread undetected uterine...

The first bellwether case is underway in the federal MDL involving metal-on-metal hip replacements manufactured by Wright Medical Technology Inc. Hundreds of federal metal hip lawsuits from around the country have been consolidated in Georgia before U.S. District Judge William S. Duffey Jr. The plaintiffs allege that Wright’s defective hip system created dangerously high levels of cobalt and...

Around the globe, patients receiving metal-on-metal hip implants have suffered serious injuries, requiring removal of the defective medical devices. In New Zealand, hospitals reportedly are allowing representatives of the metal hip manufacturers into the operating room without patients’ consent during revision surgery.

The issue came to light during a New Zealand investigation by the...

Transvaginal mesh maker C.R. Bard Inc. has reached an agreement to settle 3,000 vaginal mesh lawsuits for more than $200 million. The settlement averages out to $67,000 per case.

In 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered Bard and other mesh manufacturers to conduct studies of organ damage caused by the medical device. Used to treat incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse,...

Twelve congressional members have asked the U.S. Government Accountability Office to conduct an investigation concerning thelaparoscopic power morcellator — a device used in gynecologic surgeries that can spread undetected cancer cells throughout the body. A bipartisan group of lawmakers sent a letter to the GAO, criticizing the Food & Drug Administration for being lax in its decision to...

Lina Medical ApS has settled a power morcellator lawsuit filed against the medical device maker in federal court in Pennsylvania. The amount of the settlement is confidential. It was expected that this would be the first power morcellator lawsuit to reach trial.

Scott Burkhart filed suit in March 2014...