A tissue containment system for use with power morcellators has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). According to Gibbs Henderson with Waters Kraus & Paul in Dallas, power morcellator lawsuits have highlighted the risks for women undergoing laparoscopic procedures in which the surgeon uses a power morcellator. The medical device is essentially a rotating blade on...
California and Washington state have filed transvaginal mesh lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson, charging that the medical device maker misrepresented the risks of its mesh implants. Transvaginal mesh was supposed to help women suffering from urinary incontinence or pelvic prolapse. Waters Kraus & Paul Texas vaginal mesh attorney Gibbs Henderson, who is also licensed in Texas and...
When you think about the causes of birth defects and childhood cancer, farming probably doesn’t leap to the top of your mind. But now that America’s traditional family farms have been gobbled up all over the country by industrial agriculture, that’s what’s happening. Factory farming is polluting the nation’s waterways with pesticides and nitrate compounds — toxic substances that...
Most mesothelioma asbestos lawsuits in the United States do not end with a criminal conviction and jail sentence for those found to be responsible. Things recently went very differently for former company officials with Italian electronics company Olivetti. Several company managers were sentenced to prison in connection with the mesothelioma deaths of ten factory workers exposed to asbestos in...
Researchers in Berlin have developed further confirmation that the chromium and cobalt ions released into the body from metal-on-metal hip implants, like the Zimmer Durom Cup, contribute to osteolysis, or bone loss. The study was conducted by physicians and scientists with DRK Klinikum Westend and Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin. It has been published in the most recent edition of...
Mesothelioma health care providers attending the 2016 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago listened with interest to a presentation of researchers’ findings that the treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) with pleurectomy and decortication (PD) results in an improved quality of life for most patients. “Veterans and others struggling with pleural...
American Association for Justice Honors Gary Paul with One of its Highest Awards for Distinguished Service
LOS ANGELES – July 25, 2016 – Waters Kraus & Paul partner Gary M. Paul has been awarded the prestigious Leonard Ring Champion of Justice Award by the American Association for Justice (AAJ) and presented by AAJ President Larry Tawwater. The award...
A recent study of transvaginal mesh published in the May 2016 issue of International Urogynecology Journal reports what many Waters Kraus & Paul clients have experienced firsthand. “Even after undergoing surgery,” says Rachel Gross, Texas transvaginal mesh attorney, “problems with stress urinary incontinence often continue.” For women treated with the Elevate Anterior device, the...
Hundreds of IVC filter lawsuits against C.R. Bard Inc. (Bard) have been transferred to a federal multi-district litigation (MDL) judge in Phoenix, Arizona. To date, more than 400 blood clot filter cases have been filed in federal court against the New Jersey-based medical device maker. Bard has marketed and sold its IVC blood clot filters as a way to capture blood clots before they reach the...
Seven hundred Britains have filed a massive metal-on-metal hip implant lawsuit against three makers of the dangerously defective implants. The defendants in the case reportedly include: Zimmer, which made the Durom cup implant; DePuy, the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary that made the Pinnacle system; and Corin, which manufactured the Cormet hip replacement system. Metal-on-metal hip implants...
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