Medical device manufacturers may wish that the recent transvaginal lawsuits would hurry up and go away, but they have only just begun. In the past months, a massive run of personal injury lawsuits has begun to roll towards them. In fact, the first of 6,400 suits is slated to reach West Virginia courts in March. Boston Scientific has been named as the defendant.<\/p>\n
The sheer scale of this litigation is astounding; more than 30,000 medical negligence and defective product lawsuits have been filed against six U.S. mesh makers. Most of the cases allege that the manufacturers knew, or should have known, of the devastating and dangerous side effects of the mesh they produced. <\/p>\n
The first four cases against Boston Scientific are to serve as bellwether cases, dealing with the Pinnacle transvaginal mesh and Obtryx mesh that caused complications that included, but were not limited to, internal injuries, infections, severe pain and (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Medical device manufacturers may wish that the recent transvaginal lawsuits would hurry up and go away, but they have only just begun. In the past months, a massive run of personal injury lawsuits has begun to roll towards them. In…<\/span><\/p>\n