{"id":889,"date":"2016-06-18T07:13:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T12:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.masstortlawyerblog.com\/?p=889"},"modified":"2018-04-12T12:39:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T17:39:50","slug":"ethicon-transvaginal-mesh-mdl-lawsuit-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/ethicon-transvaginal-mesh-mdl-lawsuit-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethicon Transvaginal Mesh MDL Lawsuit Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of women have come forward to bring\u00a0lawsuits against the makers of transvaginal mesh products, alleging that they suffered serious, painful, and in some cases permanent injuries as a result of the products&#8217; dangerous nature. Ethicon is one of the main manufacturers implicated in these lawsuits, which is a subsidiary of major health product manufacturer Johnson &amp; Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>In general, these lawsuits claim that after receiving an Ethicon transvaginal mesh implant, the women experienced a variety of adverse effects, including abdominal pain, painful intercourse, and other complications as the result of the device migrating after implantation or otherwise not functioning as promised in the marketing materials associated with the device. Several of these women required subsequent revision surgeries and will need constant ongoing care to monitor the resulting complications.<\/p>\n<p>There have been so many lawsuits filed against Johnson &amp; Johnson regarding the Ethicon product that the lawsuits have been organized into an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvsd.uscourts.gov\/MDL\/ethicon\/\" target=\"_blank\">MDL<\/a>\u00a0or multi-district litigation. Similar to a class action, an MDL proceeding seeks to associate cases that have common facts, legal claims, and injuries. This helps expedite the processing of these cases and promotes consistency in how each case is adjudicated.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/ethicon-transvaginal-mesh-mdl-lawsuit-update\/#more-889\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of women have come forward to bring\u00a0lawsuits against the makers of transvaginal mesh products, alleging that they suffered serious, painful, and in some cases permanent injuries as a result of the products&#8217; dangerous nature. Ethicon is one of the main manufacturers implicated in these lawsuits, which is a subsidiary of major health product manufacturer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-devices","category-product-liability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ethicon Transvaginal Mesh MDL Lawsuit Update &#8212; Illinois Injury and Mass Tort Lawyer Blog &#8212; June 18, 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Thousands of women have come forward to bring\u00a0lawsuits against the makers of transvaginal mesh products, alleging that they suffered serious, painful, and &#8212; June 18, 2016\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.molllawgroup.com\/blog\/ethicon-transvaginal-mesh-mdl-lawsuit-update\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ethicon Transvaginal Mesh MDL Lawsuit Update &#8212; 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