{"id":466,"date":"2013-03-01T18:03:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T18:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/?p=466"},"modified":"2013-03-02T12:20:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T12:20:30","slug":"johnson-johnson-ordered-to-pay-7-76-million-in-vaginal-mesh-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/johnson-johnson-ordered-to-pay-7-76-million-in-vaginal-mesh-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson &#038; Johnson Ordered to Pay $7.76 Million in Vaginal Mesh Lawsuit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Linda Gross, 47, of Watertown, South Dakota, was recently awarded a $7.76 million jury verdict by a New Jersey jury \u00a0in her lawsuit against health care giant, Johnson &amp; Johnson (\u201cJ&amp;J\u201d).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vzResghV3g0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The $7.76 million jury verdict was a punitive damages award against J&amp;J for the personal injuries suffered from their recalled Prolift vaginal mesh product. The defective product was used to treat pelvic organ collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Gross was <strong>previously awarded $3.35 million in other monetary compensation by the jury<\/strong>, validating her claim that J&amp;J failed to adequately warn Gross\u2019s doctors about the potential dangers of the vaginal mesh implant.<\/p>\n<p>Gross initiated the suit against J&amp;J back in 2008, alleging that the vaginal mesh implant was not safe, and that J&amp;J was liable for the product\u2019s defective design, manufacture, warnings and instructions.<\/p>\n<p>The Prolift vaginal mesh product was taken off the US market in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gross\u2019s case was the first <\/strong><strong>of\u00a0 the hundreds of vaginal mesh cases <\/strong><strong>to be decided that are currently pending in New Jersey courts against J&amp;J. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The substantial jury awards could have an immense impact on the remainder of the impending cases.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you or someone you love been injured or suffered a <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-wrongful-death.php\">wrongful death<\/a> due to a <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-defective-product-injury-lawyers-attorneys.php\">defective product<\/a>, such as a vaginal mesh implant? 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Your needs are our top priority!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Gross, 47, of Watertown, South Dakota, was recently awarded a $7.76 million jury verdict by a New Jersey jury \u00a0in her lawsuit against health care giant, Johnson &amp; Johnson (\u201cJ&amp;J\u201d). The $7.76 million jury verdict was a punitive damages &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/johnson-johnson-ordered-to-pay-7-76-million-in-vaginal-mesh-lawsuit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,10,28,4,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}