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 $72 million verdict in Missouri […]
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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 – including $10 million
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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) associated with this particular product. The Food and Drug Administration released
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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 have been so many victims of this medical device that
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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. Bernstein, who presided over the trial in which
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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. The verdict followed a $5.5 million compensatory award
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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 & Johnson. In the current case, being
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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 facing thousands of lawsuits over
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A jury in Texas has handed down a $1.2 million verdict in a transvaginal mesh case for a woman who was injured after the device eroded inside her. The verdict was the latest against Johnson & Johnson and the first for the plaintiffs involving a TVT-O device used for stress urinary incontinence. There are currently more than 12,000
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Vaginal mesh used to repair uterine prolapse, stress urinary incontinence (SUI), bladder prolapse, or pelvic organ prolapse (POP) can cause serious pelvic pain and problems. Pelvic Organ Prolapse, or POP, or Stress Urinary Incontinence, SUI, can occur after a hysterectomy or when the pelvic or internal organ structures, such as the bladder, bowel, uterus or the muscles and ligaments
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