implant product liability News

A federal judge took the unusual step of urging C.R. Bard Inc. to settle thousands of lawsuits over defective vaginal-mesh implants because juries may award billions of dollars in damages. “I can’t imagine a corporation facing potentially billions of dollars …

Boston Scientific Corp. was ordered to pay $73 million to a woman who said a defectively designed vaginal-mesh implant left her in constant pain, in the first award against the device maker over its incontinence slings. Boston Scientific is liable …