March 31, 2016
A “steady stream” of big products liability verdicts have been won by plaintiffs lawyers against Johnson & Johnson recently, notes an article in The New Jersey Law Journal. It cites a judge’s order in Dallas that the company pay $502 million to five plaintiffs injured by artificial hips and a $…
February 11, 2016
Shanin Specter and his team made it 2-0 against Johnson & Johnson in a case against vaginal mesh, a defective product that has caused permanent injury to women across the country. The latest verdict came on Wednesday as a jury in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court handed down a $13.5 million award…
January 21, 2016
In the wake of snowballing defective product lawsuits in Pennsylvania and nationwide against the manufacturers of various transvaginal surgical mesh brands, our defective device attorneys — five of whom also are doctors — want to reiterate the dangers (as stated by the federal government)…
January 20, 2016
Less than a month after our attorneys won a defective surgical device lawsuit on behalf of our client, Patricia Hammons, lawyers elsewhere also landed a major victory against another transvaginal mesh manufacturer. For Hammons, transvaginal mesh surgery caused more harm than good. In fact, there…
January 19, 2016
Last month’s $12.5 million verdict for a woman against Johnson & Johnson over its surgically implanted vaginal mesh product has grown by nearly $800,000 following a judge’s recent decision to add delay damages to the result. The order was handed down by Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Mark I.…
December 22, 2015
NEWS RELEASE PHILADELPHIA -- A jury today awarded $7 million in punitive damages against Johnson & Johnson for an Indiana woman injured by a surgically implanted vaginal mesh. The plaintiffs claimed the product was defective and that J&J knew and failed to warn doctors about its dangers…
December 01, 2015
Opening speeches are due to get underway tomorrow in courtroom 246 in City Hall in the first Philadelphia trial involving a device surgically implanted in women to treat organ prolapse, a device called transvaginal mesh. The case involves the Prolift made by Ethicon, Inc., a division of Johnson…
September 19, 2014
 A jury in Dallas handed down a $73.5 million verdict against a medical device maker in a lawsuit filed by a woman who suffered injuries as a result of a vaginal implant intended to treat incontinence. The verdict was handed down in Dallas against Boston Scientific, one of seven manufacturers…
June 06, 2014
The Food and Drug Administration has proposed stricter classifications on surgically implanted vaginal mesh devices. The new classification would place pelvic mesh devices in the “high risk” classification, moving it up from the “moderate risk” category. The more restrictive classification would…
April 11, 2014
 In further news on the massive transvaginal mesh litigation … Lee Balefsky is now a member of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee involved in all cases nationwide. Balefsky, head of Kline & Specter’s Mass Tort Department, was also named as liasion counsel in the Philadelphia Mass Tort Pelvic…