North Carolina Product Liability Lawyer BlogProfits can lead corporations to take dangerous risks. In the medical device industry, it can mean that a company decides to rush a product onto market without proper clinical testing. Or it could mean the company goes too far in promoting a product for “off-label use.” Sometimes, the pursuit of corporate profits turns into a […]
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Transvaginal Mesh: Chilling Allegations in State Lawsuits Against Johnson & Johnson
So maybe you’ve heard the news that Washington and California recently sued Johnson & Johnson for misrepresenting the safety of its transvaginal mesh (or “pelvic mesh”) products. I pulled the Washington lawsuit and read it. It is alarming. If Washington can prove the allegations in the complaint, it will be a damning indictment of Johnson […]
Cook IVC Filter Litigation: “Discovery” Allowed on Cook’s Failure to Report Risks
In every lawsuit the court issues key rulings which will impact the outcome of the case. By “court” I mean the presiding judge. Some court decisions end the lawsuit (e.g., a judge granting a defendant’s summary judgment motion). Some decisions kick a leg of the stool out from under one party (granting a motion to […]
IVC Filter Injuries and Lawsuits: C.R. Bard’s “Recovery” and “G2” Filters
In this post we look at the history of C.R. Bard’s problematic IVC filters, which sadly have caused many injuries and several deaths. In May 2015 a multidistrict litigation site (MDL) was selected for claims across the country arising from injuries relating to C.R. Bard’s “G2 Series” and “Recovery” IVC filters. But before we get […]
Jury Awards Astonishing $502 Million to Five Depuy Pinnacle Hip Victims
The ground moved on March 17, 2016. In a Dallas Texas courtroom a federal jury ordered Depuy Orthopaedics and Johnson & Johnson to pay five unfairly injured people $502 million dollars, including a stunning $360 million in punitive damages. The jury based this award on findings that Depuy hid critical defects in the design of […]
Depuy Pinnacle Hip Cases Currently Being Tried to Jury in Texas
There is a very important Depuy Pinnacle hip case being tried in Dallas, Texas as I write this. The federal court system has consolidated many of the Depuy Pinnacle lawsuits into one multidistrict litigation in the North District of Texas (3:11-md-02244) presided over by federal judge Ed Kinkeade. Bellwether Cases Back in August, Judge Kinkeade […]
Failed Artificial Hips: What Cases Are Still Active in 2016?
Artificial hips have been failing for years now. The effort in the last two decades to build and market a metal-on-metal hip that might last the patient’s lifetime has not been a success. The manufacturers were too quick to move the new metal hips to market, and using the flawed 510(k) fast-track process, they did […]
Recent Transvaginal Mesh Trials: Two Losses, One Win for Injured Women (Part 4)
We’ve been looking at recent trial results in transvaginal mesh cases. In this (fourth) post we review two verdicts from October 2015, where juries concluded that the mesh manufacturers were not negligent. Thus, these injured women received no money for the failure of the transvaginal mesh. In a third case, decided on December 21, 2015, […]
Transvaginal Mesh: What Is It and Why So Many Lawsuits?
You have probably seen news reports (or at least the flood of TV commercials from law firms) about the suffering caused by the failure of transvaginal mesh (TVM) products. This is a unique medical device failure “story” because of the large number of women who have been affected. It is estimated that transvaginal mesh is […]
Zimmer Persona Artificial Knee Recall: Lawsuits Mounting
“The Most Anatomically Accurate Knee Implant” In 2012, medical device manufacturer Zimmer, Inc. introduced the Persona artificial knee to the public with lofty language. Zimmer announced that the company was “redefining knee arthroplasty and ushering in a new era of personalization with the introduction of the Persona Knee.” Zimmer stated on its website that by […]