Texas Jury awards $1.2 M in J&J/Ethicon Pelvic Mesh Lawsuit

A Texas jury awarded $1.2 million in compensatory damages to plaintiff Linda Batiste in a lawsuit over Johnson & Johnson's TVT-O mesh sling, sold by its subsidiary Ethicon.  The TVT-O product is a surgical mesh designed to treat pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontience (SUI) in women.   After a wave of lawsuits over the devices, J&J stopped selling some lines of vaginal mesh implants, but the TVT-O sling is still on the market.  The jury found that the TVT-O was defectively designed, but that warnings about the risks were adequate and declined to award punitive damages.    Read more about Pelvic Mesh litigation…

[1] Batiste v. McNabb, No. 12-14350, District Court for the 95th Judicial District, Dallas County Texas (Dallas). 
[2] Feeley, J. "J&J Must Pay Damages in Mesh Incontinence Implant Verdict Loss," BloombergBusinessweek, April 4, 2014.
[3] Perriello, B. "Jury splits in $1.2M Ethicon pelvic mesh case," April 4, 2014.