{"id":1141,"date":"2013-09-27T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagomedicalmalpracticeattorney-blog.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2019-10-17T06:08:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:08:06","slug":"2-million-verdict-retried-bellwether-transvaginal-mesh-trial-c-r-bard-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/2-million-verdict-retried-bellwether-transvaginal-mesh-trial-c-r-bard-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"$2 Million Verdict in Retried Bellwether Transvaginal Mesh Trial Against C.R. Bard, Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On July 8, 2013, the U.S. District Court in Charleston, W.Va., started the first bellwether jury trial in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crbard.com\/\">C.R. Bard, Inc. <\/a>Multidistrict Litigation (MDL).<span>\u00a0<\/span>Bard manufactures transvaginal mesh products.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Not long after the beginning of the trial, the trial judge declared a mistrial.<span>\u00a0<\/span>After opening statements and the testimony of at least one witness, a physician then testified inadvertently that the manufacturer (Bard) was no longer selling this type of mesh product, which was at issue in the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The court declared the mistrial because the testimony violated a pretrial order that prohibited evidence of a subsequent remedial measure.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The case was restarted again in mid-August, but this time the jury returned a $2 million verdict for the injuries suffered by Donna Cisson, a public-health nurse from Georgia.<span>\u00a0<\/span>She received the Bard Avaulta Plus implant in 2009.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Jurors deliberated for 12 hours over two days before reaching their verdict. The vaginal mesh implant is made by Bard.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Bard\u2019s attorneys have said on the record that the company intends to appeal the verdict ($250,000 in compensatory damages and $1.75 million in punitive damages), which they say was wrong because Cisson\u2019s injuries were not caused by Bard\u2019s product.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The transvaginal mesh products are used in surgical procedures to repair conditions in women that have pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Bard has removed its Avaulta Plus implant product off the market in 2012 after the FDA ordered that all makers of these implant products review reports of organ damage, infection and pain during sex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/2-million-verdict-retried-bellwether-transvaginal-mesh-trial-c-r-bard-inc\/#more-1141\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 8, 2013, the U.S. District Court in Charleston, W.Va., started the first bellwether jury trial in the C.R. 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Multidistrict Litigation (MDL).\u00a0Bard manufactures transvaginal mesh products.\u00a0Not long after the beginning of the trial, the trial judge declared a mistrial.\u00a0After opening statements and the testimony of at least one witness, a physician then [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-device-liability","category-transvaginal-mesh-litigation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$2 Million Verdict in Retried Bellwether Transvaginal Mesh Trial Against C.R. 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