$12.5 million total, including $7 million for punitive charges.
“Philadelphia jury ruled in favor of plaintiff against Johnson and Johnson”
from: news-medical.net/news
Published on December 26, 2015“Fair Rate Funding, a leader in pelvic mesh lawsuit funding, reports a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff, Patricia Hammons and against defendant, Johnson and Johnson on Monday. A Philadelphia jury ruled Johnson & Johnson (J&J) must pay Patricia Hammons $5.5 million in compensatory damages and $7 million in punitive damages over the defectively designed Prolift pelvic mesh. The matter is cited as: Patricia L. Hammons v Secant Medical, Ethicon, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, Case No. 2:13-cv-04086.”
“The trial lasted for two weeks, Plaintiff alleged defective design of the Prolift mesh product, a failure to warn physicians about the potential dangers of its use and manufacturing and marketing negligence.
The jury found in plaintiff’s favor on all three counts. Deliberations took less than 24 hours.”“The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas has just under 200 other pelvic mesh product liability lawsuits pending against Ethicon, a division of Johnson & Johnson. The others are scheduled to be heard beginning in 2016. There are approximately 8,000 pelvic mesh cases filed against Ethicon in the New Jersey courts and over 30,000 filed in the Multi-District Litigation (MDL) in West Virginia.”
Read full article at:
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20151226/Philadelphia-jury-ruled-in-favor-of-plaintiff-against-Johnson-and-Johnson.aspx
“Philadelphia Prolift Mesh Case Yields $12.5 Million Verdict for Plaintiff”
“J & J has displayed an attitude so far they don’t care what the jury says, they don’t care what the judge says, they’re bigger than everyone else. They do things on J&J’s terms. That’s my impression of them.” ~ Adam Slater, Mazie, Slater
from, Mesh Medical Device News Desk
Dec 22nd, 2015 | By Jane Akre“After negotiating for less than 24 hours, the 12 jurors in the case of a woman implanted with a Prolift pelvic mesh made by Johnson & Johnson (J&J), added to her $5.5 million compensatory award with $7 million in punitive damages bringing her total jury award to $12.5 million. “
“This was the first pelvic mesh case to be heard in this court. It is also the first time the Prolift Pelvic Floor Repair System has been found defectively designed and that J&J failed to warn doctors about the dangers it understood were inherent with the product.
This jury trial marks the first time in Johnson & Johnson pelvic mesh litigation that there has been any mention of document destruction by the company to jurors. J&J destroyed thousands of pages of documents that were on a litigation hold to help plaintiffs prepare for litigation, according to a conclusion by West Virginia Magistrate Judge Cheryl Eifert. So far that fact was never allowed to be mentioned before a jury.”
Read full article at: http://meshmedicaldevicenewsdesk.com/philadelphia-prolift-mesh-case-yields-12-5-million-verdict-for-plaintiff
“Phila. jury awards $12.5M in vaginal mesh case”
Johnson & Johnson.
from Philly.Com,
Chris Mondics, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
POSTED: Wednesday, December 23, 2015“The Common Pleas Court jury awarded $5.5 million in compensatory damages for her ongoing health problems and inability to have sex. The jury also awarded $7 million in damages to punish the health-care-products giant for having marketed an unsafe product.”
“Closing Arguments Begin, Abruptly Stop, in Phila. Mesh Trial”
P.J. D’Annunzio, The Legal Intelligencer
December 16, 2015“Look at this,” he continued, opening the box and showing the jury several of the hook-shaped mesh installation tools. “Don’t you think these products should have been tested on human beings before it was marketed?“
“Specter then dug into Ethicon, claiming that the engineering of the mesh was cut short, ultimately rendering a subpar product. He added that Ethicon destroyed thousands of pages of documents relating to the Prolift.“
“Specter then read off a list of potential injuries that could occur that Ethicon allegedly knew about, pointing to Hammons and shouting “that happened to you” with each one. Ethicon never warned about those potential injuries, he said. Why? “Because nobody would buy it” if they had, he said.”
Next, Specter said that Ethicon had “no idea” how to remove the mesh if it needed to be taken out. That is something he said Dr. David Elliott of the Mayo Clinic observed.
Elliott described trying to remove the mesh as a “trainwreck,” Specter told the jury.
Then, at 2:30 p.m., a half-hour into Specter’s closing argument, the fire alarm sounded. Bernstein said the closings would pick up again the following morning.”
Please read full article:
http://www.thelegalintelligencer.com/id=1202745039584/Closing-Arguments-Begin-Abruptly-Stop-in-Phila-Mesh-Trial?mcode=1202617075166&curindex=0&curpage=ALL
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