The Vigna Law Group comments on physicians' untimely diagnoses of brachial plexus, resulting in missed opportunities for high-quality treatment. Of those admitted to trauma hospitals with multiple injuries from motor vehicle accidents, one percent will have brachial plexus injuries. It is not uncommon for these injuries to be diagnosed in rehabilitation hospitals as there [...]
Attorney on the frontlines, trying to end the vaginal mesh debacle, releases podcast. “My firm represents a number of women with pudendal neuralgia caused by the Obtryx sling. There is no question that the Covid-19 crisis has caused a delay in cases moving forward to trial, but we are hopeful that delay will be [...]
The Vigna Law Group comments on a lawsuit filed against Johnson and Johnson Inc. from a woman who was injured by the defective TVT-O sling. “Brave women with pudendal neuralgia and obturator neuralgia continue to reject inadequate settlement offers to pursue individual litigation against Ethicon. They actually have no real choice.” Greg Vigna, MD, [...]
The Vigna Law Group comments on the failures of Penumbra Inc. Jet 7. “We have seen this before in the IVC filter litigation when companies keep defective devices on the market as they try and make design changes in the device to avoid scrutiny by the FDA and hide the product design flaws from [...]
Dr. Greg Vigna discusses Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type 1 (CRPS) and the suggested relationship to crush injuries. The cause of the pain from Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), now referred to as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type 1 (CRPS) is unknown but recent animal models suggest that it is related to impairment in blood [...]
Dr. Greg Vigna follows-up on his January 23, 2019 Press Release: “Transobturator transvaginal mesh slings: Scars Remain on the Pudendal Nerve” Dr. Greg Vigna, practicing physician, national pharmaceutical injury attorney, Certified Life Care Planner states, “Since my January 23, 2019 article much has changed: The NICE recommendations from Great Britain have essentially halted the [...]
Vigna Law Group comments on Penumbra Jet 7 Lawsuit. “Penumbra Inc. made a mistake in its design of its catheter and like other pharmaceutical injury cases compounded it by not recalling the device from the market when safety signals began coming in.” Greg Vigna, MD, JD, stroke expert, national pharmaceutical injury lawyer “We have [...]
Dr. Greg Vigna discusses the evaluation of pudendal neuralgia cases from the MDL. “Of the approximately 39,616 cases originally filed in or transferred to the Ethicon MDL, only a handful remain”… Honorable Judge Goodwin (Case 2:12-md-02327 Document 9192) Greg Vigna, MD, JD, national pharmaceutical injury attorney, practicing physician, Certified Life Care Planner states, “We [...]
Evidence is suggesting that the device nearly always breaks at the exact same place in the catheter leading to significant neurological injury & sometimes death “The Penumbra Jet 7 Reperfusion Catheter used for revascularization of large vessel cerebral strokes is defective and unsafe. It was voluntarily recalled but too late for too many injured [...]
Mesh manufacturers' product warnings have not done enough to allow physicians and patients to truly appraise the risks versus benefits of using these devices. “We are seeing some mesh loving implanters of transobturator slings who are oblivious to both the NICE recommendations and human anatomy stating the absurd, and at other times implanting doctors [...]