We look forward to helping other women who've been seriously harmed by vaginal mesh products get compensation for their injuries.

The FDA earlier this year asked vaginal mesh makers for further safety studies.

That same year, researchers reported in a medical journal that about 15 percent of the women treated with vaginal mesh experienced potential complications.

In 2013, Bard began negotiations to settle nearly 30,000 legal claims related to implantable vaginal meshes made by the company.

The vaginal mesh was also used by many doctors to treat a severe form of urinary incontinence, called stress incontinence.

The Rottenstein Law Group maintains a website that describes all of the issues vaginal mesh patients face and explains their options.

The jurors rejected a claim that J&J's former Prolift vaginal mesh implant was designed defectively.

He said charges are likely to be considerably less for the vaginal mesh litigation, "So I don't think this is a big overhang" for the company.

On Monday, the company said there were 4,000 lawsuits against J&J involving the vaginal mesh product pending in the United States.

He said J&J was ending sales of the products largely due to negative overall publicity about vaginal mesh devices, not because of lawsuits against the company.

Last June, J&J announced that it had stopped selling the vaginal mesh following lawsuits that allege they caused infections and bleeding.

This is the first of 1,800 vaginal mesh lawsuits against Ethicon pending in New Jersey Superior Court to go to trial.

In 2008, the F.D.A. issued a warning that the use of vaginal mesh was associated with complications but said at the time that such problems were rare.

In 2011, J&J’s Ethicon was sued by more than 100 women citing negligence and defective product design of the vaginal mesh, Gynecare Prolift.

AMS estimated its potential liability as of March 31 from all current and future vaginal mesh cases to be at least $160 million, according to another SEC filing.

The FDA decided to order Ethicon and other transvaginal mesh manufacturers to cease production until extensive testing and research on each of vaginal mesh device was conducted.

The top producers of vaginal mesh include Boston Scientific, C. R. Bard, Ethicon and W. L. Gore & Associates.

There have also been problems with vaginal mesh implants from companies including J&J and Boston Scientific, and exposed electrical wires in defibrillators from St. Jude Medical Inc.

Last year, jurors in a state court in Bakersfield, California, said C.R. Bard was liable for $3.6 million in the first case over the vaginal mesh devices to go to trial.

It alleged that the Gyncare Prolift vaginal mesh was not safe and that J&J and Ethicon were liable, among other things, for "their defective design, manufacture, warnings and instructions."

"We're relieved that one of the Prolift cases has gone to trial," said Rochelle Rottenstein , principal of the Rottenstein Law Group, which represents women in vaginal mesh lawsuits.

A NEW Jersey jury has awarded $3.35 million ($A3.25m) to a former nurse who blames Johnson & Johnson's vaginal mesh implant for years of severe, chronic pain despite 18 unsuccessful repair surgeries.

It was the first verdict among some 1,800 vaginal mesh cases pending in New Jersey against Ethicon and J&J and could have an impact on thousands of lawsuits against other manufacturers of similar products.

The jury on Monday awarded the same woman $3.35 million in other compensation, saying J&J failed to adequately warn her doctors of potential dangers from the vaginal mesh implant made by J&J's Ethicon subsidiary.

Delaware woman wins $100m in transvaginal mesh case '

That same year, about 260,000 women underwent surgery for stress urinary incontinence, 80 percent of which involved transvaginal mesh.

Much controversy surrounds Ethicon's transvaginal meshes used on patients with female genital prolapse.

Provost Umphrey is also currently litigating numerous transvaginal mesh cases with new cases still being accepted.

However, the use of a transvaginal mesh in treating vaginal prolapses is associated with side effects including pain, infection, and organ perforation.

In 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration notified transvaginal mesh manufacturers about reports of potential complications stemming from the devices.

The firm's drug litigation attorneys, including Kirchmer, are currently pursuing women's health-related cases regarding hormone replacement therapy, transvaginal mesh and Mirena.

However, in 2008, the FDA issued a Public Health Notification regarding reports of serious complications associated with transvaginal mesh devices.

AMS is one of several companies facing thousands of lawsuits over transvaginal mesh devices in U.S. state and federal courts, as well as Canada.

Transvaginal mesh is a device that was specifically designed to help women with Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Stress Urinary Incontinence.

A total of 200 women were treated with the transvaginal mesh kit, while the remaining participants underwent traditional colporrhaphy (the surgical repair of a defect in the vaginal wall).

Transvaginal mesh is a medical device inserted through a vaginal incision to repair the weakened or damaged tissues in women with POP or SUI.

The FDA decided to order Ethicon and other transvaginal mesh manufacturers to cease production until extensive testing and research on each of vaginal mesh device was conducted.

We stand committed to allow our clients to not only get the funding they need, but to receive the maximum pre-settlement values available on transvaginal mesh claims in the lawsuit funding market.

Obtaining a Free Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuit Review -- CONCORD, Calif., Aug.

Those who have suffered serious health complications caused by a mesh or sling implant are eligible for a free transvaginal mesh lawsuit review by the Life Care Solutions Group.

Jeffrey Grand, a lawyer at Bernstein Liebhard in New York, is representing women who are suing companies that make the transvaginal mesh, with a case going to trial later this year.

The Life Care Solutions Group can provide women facing health challenges after being treated with the transvaginal mesh with an assessment of their medical and legal options to try to recover from their injuries.

Levine has already seen an overwhelming number of lawsuits filed by the lawyers assigned to each complaint against companies who have produced and marketed the surgical product Transvaginal Mesh and Bladder Slings.

The team found that at the end of the first year, the primary outcome was considerably more common in 60.8% of the women treated with transvaginal mesh repair compared with 34.5% of the women who underwent colporrhaphy.

Last month in the United States, Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay a South Dakota woman $US11.11 million ($A10.64m) in damages for harm caused by its Gynecare Prolift transvaginal mesh.

Legal-Bay has been an industry leader in Transvaginal Mesh and Bladder Sling lawsuit funding, however their increased commitment to funding single cases up to $250K with minimal due diligence sets them apart from the rest of the legal funding industry.

Statistics show that as many as a third of U.S. women will suffer from one of those two problems, particularly women who have had children, and transvaginal mesh was designed to be placed in the abdominal area to help provide support for the internal organs, particularly the female organs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 3 December 2014 to Question 216204, what progress the working group on vaginal tapes and mesh has made concerning transvaginal mesh implants; and if he will make a statement.