‘Medical Device Injury’ Category

C.R. Bard Inc., one of the manufacturers of vaginal mesh products that have injured thousands of women, is in the process of negotiating a possible settlement. Nationwide, the medical device maker has been sued in more than 14,000 state and federal lawsuits. Pelvic mesh, also called vaginal mesh ortransvaginal mesh (TVM), is used to treat women with urinary incontinence or pelvic organ...

Johnson & Johnson has consented to pay an additional $420 million to settle ASR hip implant lawsuits that had been excluded from a 2013 settlement amounting to $2.5 billion. The lawsuits allege that the metal-on-metal hip replacements caused pain, dislocation and metal poisoning. In addition, the implants often required patients to undergo painful revision surgery in which the defective...

In April 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned that the power morcellator medical device, which surgeons were using in large numbers in hysterectomies, had been associated with a risk of spreading cancer cells during the procedure. A month later, the AAGL — a group of gynecologic laparoscopists — issued a counter-report claiming that power morcellation is safe when performed...

In 2014, Boston Scientific Corp. was hit with three multimillion dollar verdicts in favor of women injured by the company’s vaginal mesh devices. In Florida, a federal jury reached a $26.7 million verdict in a case involving Boston Scientific’s Pinnacle pelvic mesh device. The following week, in West Virginia, the jury awarded $18.5 million to four women injured by the company’s Obtryx...

Stryker Corp. has reached a sizable settlement of more than $1 billion to put thousands of lawsuits concerning the medical device maker’s hip implants to rest. Stryker manufactured metal-on-metal hip implants that have been blamed for causing high levels of metal debris in patients’ blood. In addition, the hip replacement devices caused pain and swelling that sometimes results in the need...

In the transvaginal mesh litigation pending against C.R. Bard Inc. in federal court in West Virginia, the court has denied the manufacturer’s motion to delay a trial scheduled for February. Bard had argued that it was prejudiced by Judge Goodwin’s remarks that the pelvic mesh manufacturer should settle the cases filed against it because the company is possibly facing billions of dollars of...

The power morcellator is a medical device that many surgeons used to use regularly during robot-assisted hysterectomies. The morcellator removes the uterus through small incisions rather than through the vagina, which is the more common route for uterus removal. Then in April 2014, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cautioned that the power morcellator can actually spread cancer cells...