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Federal Court Overseeing Physiomesh Lawsuit Requires Surgically Removed Mesh be Preserved
The Honorable Judge Richard Story, who is presiding over multidistrict litigation involving the Ethicon Physiomesh hernia mesh, recently issued an order that provides guidelines for attorneys representing the plaintiffs who have suffered severe, and in some cases, permanent injury because of the device's failure.
Hernia Mesh Defendant C.R. Bard Indicates Support for MDL if Certain Conditions Are Met
On April 10, fifty-five of the nearly 100 plaintiffs who have filed lawsuits against medical device manufacturers C.R. Bard, Davol Inc., and BD Medical Technology filed a petition asking the court to centralize all cases into multidistrict litigation (MDL). In the filing, they specifically requested that the cases be heard before a U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri or Ohio's Southern District.
Covidien's Parietex Composite Mesh Cited as Cause of Action in New Hernia Mesh Lawsuit
In 2011, Covidien, a subsidiary of Medtronic, touted its ParietexTM Composite Ventral Patch as a “clinically proven collagen film technology to minimize visceral attachment...designed for optimal abdominal wall conformability in umbilical and small ventral hernia repair.” Six years later, a patient who had receive
History Repeats Itself: Hernia Mesh Lawsuits are Being Filed Nationwide
As the late baseball legend Yogi Berra reportedly said, “It's déjà vu all over again.”
Holding Them Accountable: Ethicon Physiomesh Lawsuits Move Forward This Week
On August 1st, the Honorable Judge Richard Story of the Northern District of Georgia began the process that will hopefully hold medical device manufacturer Ethicon to account for the manufacture of a device it allegedly knew was defective in design.
Physicians are Rethinking the Hernia Mesh
As knowledge about the problems with the hernia mesh becomes more widespread, an increasing number of patients facing hernia surgery are doing their own due diligence and asking their surgeons about different solutions. The fact is that there are alternatives to the hernia mesh. Why aren't these alternatives more widely known?