$3.27M Transvaginal Mesh Verdict
September 12, 2014
On September 5, 2014, after a two-week trial in federal court in West Virginia, a jury awarded $3.27 million to the plaintiff for her alleged injuries resulting from the transvaginal mesh that had been implanted in her to treat her urinary incontinence. The plaintiff alleged that she had to undergo[...]
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$850M Vaginal Mesh Settlement Announced
May 2, 2014
On April 30, 2014, Endo International plc (“Endo”), a global specialty healthcare company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland (with its U.S. headquarters located in Malvern, Pennsylvania) that develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes pharmaceutical and device products, announced t[...]
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FDA Issues AED Safety Communication
December 13, 2013
An AED (automated external defibrillator) is a device that automatically analyzes the heart rhythm in victims of sudden cardiac arrest and delivers an electrical shock to restore its normal rhythm. AEDs help save lives of cardiac arrest victims when they are working properly and used correctly. Whe[...]
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$4 Billion Defective Hip Implant Settlement Reached?
November 17, 2013
It was reported by Bloomberg on November 13, 2013 that Johnson & Johnson has reached a settlement in excess of $4 billion to resolve the more than 7,500 metal-on-metal hip implant lawsuits filed in both federal and state courts against Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc. [...]
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Chicago Woman Loses Hip Implant Lawsuit
April 21, 2013
On April 16, 2013, a Chicago jury returned a defense verdict in favor of DePuy Orthopaedics, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, after deliberating for just over one day after a five-week trial. This was only the second jury trial of the almost 11,000 lawsuits filed against DePuy Orthopaedics (inclu[...]
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Kentucky $7.25 Million Jury Verdict For Failed Cochlear Implant
April 20, 2013
On April 16, 2013, a federal jury in Kentucky returned a $7.25 million verdict in favor of a little girl whose cochlear implant (a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing) failed due to moisture leakage t[...]
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