Numerous lawsuits have been filed over the past month against Ethicon and Johnson & Johnson over their Physiomesh hernia mesh patches. These lawsuits allege that the product was defectively designed and failed to contain adequate warnings of the harms it can cause, including infection, perforation, migration, and the need for
An appeals court in Atlanta upheld a $2.1 million verdict awarded to the victim of a defective Wright Medical Group hip implant. The case had been the first bellwether trial in nationwide litigation involving these dangerous devices, but had been on appeal since the verdict was rendered in 2015. Wright
Last month, the Brazilian government removed Essure from the market. On February 17, 2017, ANVISA, the Brazilian equivalent of the USA’s FDA, issued Resolution 457/17, suspending the importation, distribution, marketing or use of Essure in Brazil. The Brazilian safety agency took this action in response to the FDA’s actions in
A jury in Dallas, Texas rendered a decision today holding Johnson & Johnson liable to six people for injuries caused by defective Pinnacle artificial hips, in a verdict totaling over $1 billion dollars. The patients suffered serious complications caused by the metal-on-metal hip implants made by DePuy, a division of