Bard Holds Onto Trial Win in First Test Case Over Hernia Mesh

C.R. Bard Inc. and Davol Inc. kept their win in the first test case over their hernia mesh, as a federal court in Ohio rejected a Utah man’s arguments that violations of evidentiary orders entitled him to a new trial.

Steven Johns alleged Ventralight ST mesh products used in two hernia repair procedures caused abdominal adhesions—a type of scar tissue—that left him with chronic pain.

A jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio rejected his product liability claims in September.

Johns’s arguments for a do-over were rebuffed Tuesday by Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr. of ...