On Monday, Henry Garrard, chairman of the fee and cost committee, fired back at four law firms objecting to their share of an estimated $550 million in common benefit fees. Lead plaintiffs' attorneys ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) – A West Virginia jury has awarded $3.27 million to the plaintiff in a multi-district litigation lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson over allegedly defective ...

Multidistrict litigation (MDL) is a consolidation of civil cases transferred from different jurisdictions around the country to a single U.S. District Court to achieve certain pre-trial efficiencies.

Transvaginal mesh lawsuits involving Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon are progressing in federal court in West Virginia, according to court documents. The Rottenstein Law Group LLP, a vaginal mesh ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Recent months have seen significant victories for plaintiffs in transvaginal mesh device lawsuits, the national law firm of Baron & Budd reports. Plaintiffs have been awarded ...

A fourth law firm has objected to its share of common benefit fees in the transvaginal mesh litigation, insisting that lawyers tasked with distributing the $550 million fund failed to compensate it ...

Boston Scientific Corp. of Marlborough was ordered Wednesday to pay a Texas woman $73 million—including $50 million in punitive damages — after a jury found the company negligent in both the design ...

American Medical Systems, Inc. (“AMS”) is a Minnesota based manufacturer of transvaginal mesh medical devices, which are support systems that are designed to correct s tress urinary incontinence and ...

For many women, a transvaginal mesh is a necessary medical appliance intended to treat and prevent pelvic organ prolapse and other pelvic floor disorders. However, these appliances are causing far ...

DALLAS -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is calling for stricter safety rules for a product used by tens of thousands of women. The move comes after a News 8 report last week on transvaginal ...