The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced a Class I recall—the most serious type of recall—for all lots of Ovation iX Abdominal Stent Graft Systems. Though manufacturer Endologix Inc. initially told their customers that the problems with the devices were due to incorrect…
On January 14, 2019, a Louisiana married couple filed a new Ethicon hernia lawsuit against manufacturers Ethicon, Inc., and parent company Johnson & Johnson (J&J). They claim that after being implanted with the Proceed hernia mesh, the wife suffered from serious injuries. Plaintiff Implanted with…
Back in August 2018, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) consolidated all federally-filed Bard hernia mesh lawsuits into one court in the Southern District of Ohio. Now the judge overseeing the pre-trial proceedings—District Judge Edmund A. Sargus—has signed an order establishing protocols for…
A Pennsylvania man recently filed a Bard hernia mesh lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. He claims that after being implanted with the mesh device, he suffered from serious injuries. Plaintiff Suffers Serious Complications After Implantation of Bard Hernia…
Australian women claiming to have been injured by Bayer’s Essure permanent birth control implant are joining together to file a class-action lawsuit. Bayer already faces thousands of Essure lawsuits by women who allege that they were injured by the birth control implant. The women assert…
In December 2016, all federally-filed Atrium C-Qur hernia mesh lawsuits were consolidated into the U.S. District Court for New Hampshire. District Judge Landya B. McCafferty was appointed to oversee the pre-trial proceedings. Both parties have been working toward preparing for the first few bellwether trials.…
The FDA has placed new restrictions on the sale of Bayer AG’s Essure permanent birth control device. On April 9, 2018, they announced that only doctors and medical centers that agree to review with patients a “discussion checklist” will be allowed to sell and distribute…
Thousands of patients who were implanted with an inferior vena cava (IVC) filter to help prevent blood clots have filed lawsuits to recover damages after these filters malfunctioned and caused injuries. Currently, manufacturer C. R. Bard is defending over 3,500 of these lawsuits, while Cook…
On April 23, 2018, a new hernia mesh lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The plaintiff claims that the hernia mesh devices that were implanted to treat his inguinal hernia caused him serious injuries, including a misdiagnosis…
Children with early onset scoliosis are often prescribed a treatment in which “growing rods” are implanted in the body along the spine to help straighten out the curvature of the spine as the child grows. The treatment is difficult because, after the initial implant surgery,…
