{"id":7605,"date":"2020-01-20T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=7605"},"modified":"2020-01-20T13:12:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T13:12:03","slug":"u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-transvaginal-mesh-medical-device-defect-verdict-totaling-20-million-including-punitive-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-transvaginal-mesh-medical-device-defect-verdict-totaling-20-million-including-punitive-damages\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Transvaginal Mesh Medical Device Defect Verdict Totaling $20 Million, Including Punitive Damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Kaiser had surgery to implant the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdedge.com\/obgyn\/article\/50044\/pelvic-organ-prolapse-repair-prolift\">Prolift Anterior Pelvic Floor Repair System<\/a>, a transvaginal mesh medical device that supports the pelvic muscles. Within a few years of her surgery, she began to experience severe pelvic pain, bladder spasms, and pain during intercourse. Her doctor attributed these conditions to contractions in the mesh of the Prolift.\u00a0 Kaiser had revision surgery to remove the device, but her surgeon could not completely extract it. The physician informed Kaiser that the painful complications she was experiencing were likely permanent.<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser sued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jnjmedicaldevices.com\/en-US\/companies\/ethicon\">Ethicon Inc.<\/a>, Prolift\u2019s manufacturer, and Johnson &amp; Johnson, its parent company, seeking damages under the Indiana Products Liability Act.<\/p>\n<p>After a two-week trial, a jury found Ethicon liable for defectively designing the Prolift device and choosing not to adequately warn about its complications.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-transvaginal-mesh-medical-device-defect-verdict-totaling-20-million-including-punitive-damages\/#more-7605\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Kaiser had surgery to implant the Prolift Anterior Pelvic Floor Repair System, a transvaginal mesh medical device that supports the pelvic muscles. Within a few years of her surgery, she began to experience severe pelvic pain, bladder spasms, and pain during intercourse. Her doctor attributed these conditions to contractions in the mesh of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[173,75,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hernia-mesh-lawsuits","category-product-defect-litigation","category-punitive-damages"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Transvaginal Mesh Medical Device Defect Verdict Totaling $20 Million, Including Punitive Damages &#8212; 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