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Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Ethicon reached an agreement to settle 224 hernia mesh lawsuits in Georgia multidistrict litigation, according to court documents. Plaintiffs claimed defects in Ethicon’s Physiomesh Flexible Composite hernia mesh led them to develop complications such as recurrent hernias, mesh migration, infection ...
Plaintiffs have filed lawsuits against three main manufacturers in federal court: Bard Davol (a subsidiary of C.R. Bard), Atrium (a subsidiary of Getinge Group) and Ethicon (a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson). State lawsuits are pending against Covidien, Medtronic and W.L. Gore & Associates.
You may be eligible to file a hernia mesh lawsuit if you had hernia mesh surgery and experienced serious complications, especially if you received mesh made by Ethicon, Atrium, Covidien or Bard Davol.
Plaintiffs are suing hernia mesh manufacturers, including Bard, Covidien, Ethicon, Atrium Medical Corporation, Gore Medical, and Genzyme. An experienced attorney can research what went wrong in someone’s situation and determine what laws they can use to fight for a fair settlement.
Right now, we are anticipating a $1.7 billion settlement in the hernia mesh litigation against Becton Dickinson. We have also seen Ethicon enter into several recent settlements. These are in addition to the numerous settlements reached previously. But, even these only cover a fraction of the hernia mesh lawsuits filed.
Ten more people have received settlements from Ethicon after suffering injuries from hernia mesh. These details were made public in a Joint Motion filed on November 5, 2024. The plaintiffs receiving these settlements were part of the multidistrict litigation (MDL 2782) against Ethicon.
Ethicon withdrew the products after an analysis of two independent hernia registries linked laparoscopic ventral hernia repair using Physiomesh to a higher average rate of recurrence and reoperation than a set of comparator meshes. Claims for personal injury soon followed.
As of November 2024, there were 26,291 total hernia mesh lawsuits pending in four multidistrict litigations against Atrium (620 cases), Covidien (1,546 cases), C.R. Bard (24,099 cases) and Ethicon (26 cases). People continue to file lawsuits.
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Josh Shapiro today announced a $116.9 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Ethicon, Inc. for their deceptive marketing of transvaginal surgical mesh devices.
The Ethicon hernia mesh multidistrict litigation (MDL) is a group of lawsuits filed against Ethicon, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. These lawsuits claim that several of Ethicon’s hernia mesh implants were defectively designed, and that the company failed to warn doctors of the risks of using them.