DALLAS – On Thursday, April 3, a 12-person jury in Dallas ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a Texas woman $1.2 million for a defective plastic sling – the TVT-O – which J & Js Ethicon division makes and markets for stress urinary incontinence. Several law firms, including Matthews & Associates and Freese & Goss, represented the woman, Ms. Linda Batiste. The irony is almost too obvious to state: A company which calls itself Ethicon – nomenclature presumably meant to recall the word Ethical – has taken actions which are clearly less than ethical. The companys own internal documents showed that it was aware of the safety problems with machine cut mesh and aware that those problems had been somewhat mollified with laser cut mesh, yet company executives prompted by marketers did not want to lose the doctored data they were continuing to try to build up to try to show their product was safer than it in fact was. EthiCon was more interested in the appearance of safety rather than the reality of it. Ethicon executives who should have known better, who should have been more ethical, let their marketers run the show; and they left enough of a paper trail for the jury to see through it all. Please contact us if you or a loved one is experiencing the side effects associated with Transvaginal mesh. 1.713.238.7758 rmatthews@dmlawfirm
Posted on: Thu, 22 May 2014 13:26:10 +0000
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