Johnson & Johnson loses another pelvic mesh suit

A federal jury in Georgia deliberated for 3 hours yesterday before delivering a another loss to Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) in a product liability lawsuit brought over pelvic mesh products.

The jury in the U.S. District Court for Middle Georgia awarded plaintiff Teresa Taylor $400,000 in compensatory damages and $4 million in punitive damages after finding that the Mentor ObTape transobdturator vaginal sling she had implanted in March 2014 caused her injuries.

The ObTape device was implantd to treat Taylor’s stress urinary incontinence, according to court documents. Taylor alleged that the device eroded, causing “chronic infections, pain, exacerbation of her urinary incontinence, and the need for multiple additional surgical procedures and medical treatment as well as the need for extensive future medical care,” according to the documents.

Johnson & Johnson, which last month agreed to settle some 100 pelvic mesh cases brought against its Mentor subsidiary, lost a pair of similar lawsuits against its Ethicon unit in recent months. Earlier in February a Philadelphia jury docked the company $13.5 million in a suit filed over its Ethicon transvaginal polypropylene tape.

In December 2015, a jury in the same court added $7 million in punitive damages to the $5.5 million in compensatory damages it leveled against Ethicon in the 1st cases from a mass tort to go to trial in Philly.

Back in June 2010 Mentor agreed to settle another group of lawsuits filed against it over an allegedly defective device designed to treat female urinary incontinence.

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