J&J’s Ethicon to Appeal $80 Million Pelvic Mesh Award (1)

Johnson & Johnson unit Ethicon will appeal a Philadelphia jury’s $80 million jury award, which includes the largest compensatory-damages verdict to date in a pelvic mesh case, the company said May 20.

The jury awarded Patricia Mesigian $30 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages.

Mesigian’s case is the latest to be decided among about 130 pelvic mesh suits pending in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County. An April 24 verdict in another case resulted in a $120 million verdict, the largest total mesh verdict. The compensatory component of that verdict was $20 million. Prior ...