...is off
Engagement
Transvaginal Mesh Victim:
In March 2013, a NJ Superior Court jury awarded Linda Gross, a registered nurse, and her husband, Jeff Gross, $11.1 million in compensatory and punitive damages ($7.76 million in punitive damages) in the first TVM trial in the country. (In re Pelvic Mesh/Gynecare Litigation, Master Docket No.: ATL-6341-10, Case No. 291.) At the six-week trial, Ms. Gross, age 47, testified that she had 18 subsequent unsuccessful revision procedures following her initial TVM surgery.
Ms Gross said that the TVM had made her life after surgery a “living hell,” and she has characterized herself and thousands of other women who were implanted with TVM as “guinea pigs” to the vaginal mesh manufacturers. Her attorneys argued that J&J and Ethicon deserved to be held financially responsible to the fullest extent of the law for their actions. The jury agreed, and found that the drugmaker failed to provide adequate warnings. Further, they determined the TVM maker intentionally committed fraud against Linda Gross regarding the transvaginal mesh.
An AMS TVM lawsuit was filed on January 18 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of WV, Charleston Div. (Case No. 2:13-cv-01083). This suit is just one of a multitude of lawsuits pending in the multidistrict litigation entitled In Re: American Medical Systems, Inc., Pelvic Repair System Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 2325).
Debbie knows the mesh has to be removed but she is also frightened at the thought of more surgery.
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May 4, 2013, 10:30:00AM. By Jane Mundy
Seattle, WA: Debbie says her engagement is off because of her American Medical Systems (AMS) transvaginal mesh implant. “I haven’t been able to have sexual activity with my fiancé without both of us experiencing pain and I don’t blame him for breaking off our engagement,” she says.
Debbie (not her real name) had the AMS transvaginal mesh implanted to treat SUI. But that has now become the least of her problems. “For the past year or so, I’ve had chronic pelvic pain, which is getting worse, and recurring bladder infections,” she adds. “Because of the inability to have sexual intimacy with my fiancé, I am also suffering from depression and weight gain - this transvaginal mesh has caused my life to become a physical and psychological downward spiral.
“Not only is my overall health suffering, but I am also in financial straights due to all the time I have missed from work, getting tests and lab work and trying to find a doctor to take out this mesh - I don’t think that my doctor knows what to do.”