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In re: Ethicon, Inc. Pelvic Repair System Products Liability Litigation

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Case overview

Case Number:

2:12-md-02327

Court:

West Virginia Southern

Nature of Suit:

Personal Inj. Prod. Liability

Multi Party Litigation:

Multi-district Litigation

Judge:

Joseph R. Goodwin

  1. July 13, 2018

    Firm Wants Mesh MDL Fee Committee To Explain Hour Cuts

    Personal injury firm Kline & Specter PC pressed Thursday for a West Virginia federal court overseeing sprawling pelvic mesh multidistrict litigation to force a plaintiffs' fee committee to turn over documents showing why it slashed the firm's claimed common benefit hours.

  2. July 21, 2016

    Ethicon Says Professor Unfit To Testify In Pelvic Mesh MDL

    Johnson & Johnson unit Ethicon on Wednesday urged the West Virginia federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation regarding its pelvic mesh products to nix an expert who was prepared to testify on the products’ allegedly poor quality and degradation, saying he is unqualified and unreliable.

  3. June 08, 2016

    Ethicon's Own Rep. Said Mesh Degrades In Body, Patients Say

    Patients with injury claims against Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon over pelvic mesh repair systems on Wednesday told the West Virginia federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation that the company's own witness has testified numerous times that its device does indeed degrade inside the body.

  4. December 14, 2015

    Ethicon Says Bulk Demand For Mesh Records Is 'Burdensome'

    Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon is fighting a demand by patients in multidistrict litigation over its pelvic repair systems products for records detailing the design and production of various batches of those mesh products, arguing that it would be "inordinately burdensome."

  5. November 09, 2015

    Ethicon Says Mesh Patients Abusing Discovery In MDL

    Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon has told a West Virginia federal court that patients with injury claims over the company's pelvic mesh products are abusing the discovery process by seeking yet more testimony three years into the multidistrict litigation.

  6. November 02, 2015

    Ethicon Blocking Witnesses In Pelvic Mesh MDL, Victims Say

    Johnson & Johnson unit Ethicon has stopped two of its key employees from testifying in multidistrict litigation blaming it for injuries tied to its transvaginal mesh products, according to alleged victims who asked a West Virginia federal court Friday to let the employees testify live by video.

  7. October 13, 2015

    Dozens Of Pelvic Mesh Suits To Join J&J MDL In W.Va.

    Despite protests, more than 60 suits alleging Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon Inc. defectively designed, manufactured and marketed transvaginal mesh devices will be added to one of seven similar multidistrict litigations in West Virginia federal court, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litgation said Tuesday.

  8. October 07, 2015

    J&J Says It's Being Harassed During Mesh MDL Discovery

    Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon Inc. said Tuesday it's been hit with a deluge of individual discovery requests in multidistrict litigation over the company's transvaginal mesh devices that amounts to harassment since fact sheets aren't due until mid-November.

  9. September 29, 2015

    Pelvic Mesh Users Slam Ethicon's Coaching Claims

    The plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation over allegedly defective pelvic mesh implants fought back Tuesday against Johnson & Johnson unit Ethicon's arguments that their attorneys had improperly coached doctors before depositions, arguing that the drugmaker's strategy is similar to one that the court had previously rejected.

  10. September 23, 2015

    Ethicon Says Pelvic Mesh Plaintiffs' Counsel Coached Doctors

    Johnson & Johnson unit Ethicon Inc. told a West Virginia federal judge Wednesday that plaintiffs' counsel in multidistrict litigation over allegedly defective pelvic mesh implants had improperly coached treating physicians before their fact depositions, urging the court to formally restrict the practice.

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