A Pennsylvania jury has awarded $41 million to a woman who suffered multiple vaginal mesh failures after being implanted with products from Ethicon, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.
An Ethicon vaginal mesh lawsuit in New Jersey ended in a $15 million verdict for the plaintiff, which also included $10 million in punitive damages.
A vaginal mesh lawsuit set for trial to begin this week has been postponed, as a joint MDL meeting was scheduled for January.
Trial is set to begin this week in the third Ethicon mesh bellwether trial against Johnson & Johnson, after Judge Goodwin denied attempts to dismiss the case.
Plaintiffs seek sanctions in Ethicon mesh lawsuits over failure to preserve documents while litigation was pending.
Vaginal mesh bellwether trials are scheduled well into next year and could determine the outcome of ongoing settlement negotiations.
The first bellwether Ethicon vaginal mesh trials will go before a jury in February involving Gynecare TVT mesh.
Settlement talks are reportedly under way with a number of vaginal mesh manufacturers that could resolve thousands of claims.
More than 30,000 lawsuits are in 6 different federal vaginal mesh MDLs, and two are among the top 3 active MDLs in the U.S.
Bard has settled a second Avaulta vaginal mesh lawsuit, less than a month after $2 million loss in first bellwether trial.
