J&J’s Ethicon asks Supreme Court to review $3m pelvic mesh loss

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary Ethicon last week asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a $3.3 million loss in a product liability lawsuit brought over its TVT-O pelvic mesh.

A federal appeals court in January upheld a $3.3 million verdict against  in a product liability lawsuit brought over its TVT-O pelvic mesh.

A jury in the U.S. District Court for Southern West Virginia awarded Jo Huskey and her husband damages of $3.3 million, finding in September 2014 that the TVT-O transvaginal sling caused her injuries and that the company failed to warn about the stress urinary incontinence treatment’s risks. A federal judge later shot down Ethicon’s bid to overturn the verdict and denied the company’s move for a new trial; Ethicon then appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.

In January a 3-judge panel at the 4th Circuit denied the appeal, ruling that the Huskeys proved their case.

Ethicon’s petition for certiorari to the Supremes, filed May 23, alleges that the appellate court improperly excluded product review evidence after misreading the relevant precedent, according to Law360.

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