Updated Lawsuits That Favored J&J Mesh Victims

There’s no bigger irony than suffering from a treatment which was undertaken to ease another ailment. Transvaginal mesh is the prime example of failure in treatment which has ultimately led to thousands of lawsuits as claimed by the suffering women. Sadly, most of them are against J&J.

Johnson & Johnson faces more vaginal mesh lawsuits than any other manufacturer. Companies like C.R.Bard, Endo International plc, Boston Scientific, Colorplast, Medtronic, and Neomedic too have their own shares of lawsuits and legal complaints against them. But Johnson & Johnson tops them all.


Thousands of lawsuits have been settled, though many are still pending. 

Here are results from some of the lawsuits that have turned out in favor of mesh victims:

•    In March 2018, a jury in Indiana awarded $35 million to Barbara and Anton Kaiser. They’d sued Ethicon (a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson) after Barbara Kaiser’s Prolift mesh allegedly caused her pelvic pain. They awarded her $10 million in damages and hit Ethicon with $25 million in punitive damages.

•    In December 2017, a Bergen County, NJ jury awarded $15 million to Elizabeth Hrymoc for defective Prolift mesh implant in 2008, which left her in such pain that she had to have it removed and replaced.

•    In September 2017, a Philadelphia jury awarded $57.1 million to Ella Ebaugh, who says she suffered chronic pain and incontinence because of two Ethicon pelvic mesh implants that eroded into her urethra.

•    In April 2017, a Philadelphia jury awarded $20 million to a woman who claimed she was in constant pain because of her TVT-Secur transvaginal mesh, a product of Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon.

•    $13.5 million verdict awarded to Sharon Carlino of New Jersey in February 2016. According to the lawsuit, Carlino received Ethicon’s transvaginal tape (TVT) for stress urinary incontinence and it left her with constant pain and discomfort. $10 million of the verdict came in the form of punitive damages.

•    J&J agreed to pay $120 million to settle 2,000-3,000 mesh lawsuits in January 2016. The settlement marked the first serious attempt by J&J to settle a significant number of mesh lawsuits. A regulatory filing at the time showed that J&J still faced more than 42,000 mesh cases.

•    $12.5 million verdict awarded to Indiana resident Patricia Hammons, including $7 million in punitive damages. Hammons was implanted with Ethicon’s Prolift device, which she says caused severe pain, sexual difficulties, and incontinence–even after corrective surgery.

•    $5 million settlement reached in September with plaintiff Pamela Wicker, implanted with Ethicon’s Prolift mesh device. Wicker claims that Prolift eroded inside of her and necessitated numerous surgeries to remove the device.

In case you are one of the victims of defective mesh implant, SettleOurTVM can be contacted for legal help. Visit them on settleourtvm.com or call at 1-888-994-2165 for details.

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