Calling the defense counsel’s behavior “unjustifiable,” a West Virginia federal judge has sanctioned Drinker Biddle & Reath in the Ethicon transvaginal surgical mesh multidistrict litigation for ...

Stanley D. Bernstein, left, and Sandy A. Liebhard, right, of Bernstein Liebhard. Courtesy photo. A fourth law firm has objected to its share of common benefit fees in the transvaginal mesh litigation, ...

Multidistrict litigation (MDL) is a consolidation of civil cases transferred from different jurisdictions around the country to a single U.S. District Court to achieve certain pre-trial efficiencies.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) – A West Virginia jury has awarded $3.27 million to the plaintiff in a multi-district litigation lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson over allegedly defective ...

The Vigna Law Group comments on recent cases filed on behalf of severely injured women suffering from transvaginal mesh injuries. Finally, the MDL attorneys have cleared out of the way, COVID-19 is ...

Have you ever thought about how medical devices designed to improve lives can sometimes cause harm instead? This became evident in August 2024, when a landmark settlement in England saw 140 women ...

Transvaginal mesh lawsuits involving Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon are progressing in federal court in West Virginia, according to court documents. The Rottenstein Law Group LLP, a vaginal mesh ...

On Monday, Henry Garrard, chairman of the fee and cost committee, fired back at four law firms objecting to their share of an estimated $550 million in common benefit fees. Lead plaintiffs' attorneys ...

Matrix settlements provided little relief for women with catastrophic pain syndromes that lead to a lifetime of disability and need for ongoing medical care. Simply put, it appears to me that these ...

Since transvaginal mesh was first introduced into the market over 20 years ago, many hundreds of thousands of women have undergone operations where doctors have inserted vaginal mesh devices, ...