Vaginal mesh lawyers at Bernstein Liebhard LLP report that an emerging study, recently presented at the Annual Congress of the European Association of Urology, revealed risk factors that may help determine which women are the likeliest to suffer from vaginal mesh complications, says Bernstein Liebhard LLP. The study looked at 677 women who had undergone pelvic organ prolapse (POP) repair with a trocar-guided transvaginal mesh device. The research revealed an increased risk for injury in younger women, women diagnosed with less prominent prolapse, or women who had undergone a concomitant hysterectomy (hysterectomy with another procedure, likely the POP repair).Transvaginal Mesh Complications
In October 2008, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) stated that it received more than 1,000 serious vaginal mesh complication reports in a three-year period.** The FDA issued an update to that alert in July 2011 warning that it had observed a five-fold increase in such reports. The agency also amended its prior position on the frequency of serious vaginal mesh complications, stating that injuries associated with POP repair were, in fact, not rare.***
Since, thousands of women have filed lawsuits alleging serious vaginal mesh implant complications following POP repair surgery and surgery to repair stress urinary incontinence (SUI), the conditions for which vaginal mesh is approved. Many such claims have been consolidated in four Multidistrict litigations underway in U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia. Bernstein Liebhard LLP partner, Jeffrey S. Grand, serves on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committees in the following proceedings:
• In re: American Medical Systems, Inc., Pelvic Repair Systems Products Liability Litigation (“MDL No. 2325”)
• In re: Boston Scientific Corp., Pelvic Repair Systems Products Liability Litigation (“MDL No. 2326)
• In re: C.R. Bard, Inc., Pelvic Repair Systems Products Liability Litigation (“MDL No. 2187”)
• In re: Ethicon, Inc., Pelvic Repair Systems Products Liability Litigation (“ MDL No. 2327”).
Also, two consolidated proceedings involving vaginal mesh claims are underway in New Jersey Superior Court, Atlantic County. Mr. Grand serves as Co-Liaison Counsel in both litigations which involve vaginal mesh device products manufactured by Ethicon Inc. and C.R. Bard:
• In re: Pelvic Mesh Litigation/Bard, No. L-6339-10
• In re: Pelvic Mesh/Gynecare Litigation, No. 6341-10
In March, the nation’s first trial involving an Ethicon mesh product concluded in the New Jersey litigation. In that case, the jury awarded more than $11 million to the Plaintiff, which included $7.76 million in punitive damages. Mr. Grand also served on the trial team. (Gross v. Gynecare Inc., Atl-L-6966-10, Superior Court of Atlantic County, New Jersey (Atlantic City))
Victims of mesh implant complications may be entitled to receive compensation for their medical bills, pain and suffering, and other injuries and are urged to contact a vaginal mesh lawyer.To learn more, please call 1-888-364-6688.
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