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  1. January 19, 2017

    Ethicon Trims Failure To Warn Claims In Mesh MDL

    The West Virginia federal judge overseeing the multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon Inc. surgical mesh dismissed failure to warn claims brought by more than a dozen women, saying that they hadn't produced evidence to show other warnings would have changed their doctors' decisions to perform surgery.  

  2. December 09, 2016

    Women In Mesh MDL Must Show Safer Design Was Feasible

    The West Virginia federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon Inc. surgical mesh sided with the company on Friday when he ruled that a consumer would have to prove a safer, alternative design to a defective product was feasible at time of its manufacture.

  3. December 02, 2015

    Ethicon Can't Duck Patients' Defect Claims In Mesh MDL

    Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon Inc. failed Wednesday to defeat design-defect claims brought by West Virginia patients in multidistrict litigation over its mesh product meant to treat stress urinary incontinence, as a federal judge found their state-law claims are not preempted by federal regulators' approval of medical devices.

  4. August 07, 2015

    Ethicon Can't Shake Consolidation In Mesh Design Defect MDL

    A West Virginia federal judge has refused to back down from his consolidation of 37 suits against Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon Inc. for trial on whether a type of pelvic mesh implant was defectively designed, calling one of Ethicon's proposed defenses a "useless relic."

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