Martin Baughman is one of the small number of firms willing to go the distance against big pharma for the injuries they cause. “Martin Baughman has taken two Bard IVC filter cases to a successful verdict in five weeks, the latest was a $2.55 million award in Dallas. Today, a third trial begins in [...]
Ben Martin, Esq. A jury awarded $926,000 to a plaintiff in an IVC filter case after unanimously finding that Bard had negligently designed the filter. On Friday, a jury in Portland federal court awarded $926,000 to a plaintiff in an IVC filter case against Bard Peripheral Vascular and C.R. Bard, Inc.Justin Peterson, represented by Martin [...]
The Vigna Law Group comments on recent discussions held in United States federal courts regarding safer design alternatives. “… Because a reasonable alternative design is a required element of design defect and Plaintiffs have not pled that an alternative design exists in their Complaint, they have not stated a plausible claim for relief, and [...]
Knowledgeable defense experts are downplaying or completely omitting from recordation the complaints of seriously injured women who come to them for care. “There are defense witnesses who present themselves as experts in surgical management of polypropylene mid-urethral slings and their complications. At best they underplay the severity of complications and resulting harm. At worst [...]
The Vigna Law Group comments on recent cases filed on behalf of severely injured women suffering from transvaginal mesh injuries. On March 12, 2021 Coloplast Corporation was hit with a lawsuit filed by a woman who sustained injuries caused by the Altis Single Incision Sling System transvaginal mesh (TVM) device used for the treatment [...]
The Vigna Law Group remains selective regarding the cases taking past the MDL as well as the new injury cases signed. “Ethicon Multidistrict Litigation: This main MDL case is CLOSED and STRICKEN from the docket: no member cases remain”… Honorable Judge Goodwin (Case 2:12-md-02327 Document 9204) Greg Vigna, MD, JD, national pharmaceutical injury attorney, [...]
Vigna Law Group releases new podcast featuring Ben C Martin. My firm represents many women with pudendal neuralgia, obturator neuralgia, and ilioinguinal neuralgia caused by mid-urethral slings. The injuries we are seeing are sometimes simply devastating. Our hope is that our clients get better. Our goal is that they are fully compensated for their [...]
Dr. Vigna weighs in on the treatment of phantom pain following a traumatic amputation. “Post-amputation pain in the missing limb following amputation, first described by a French military surgeon in the 1500’s, requires life-time treatment to allow for optimum functional outcome after an amputation. The cost of necessary treatments is substantial”…Greg Vigna, MD, JD. [...]
Dr. Greg Vigna comments on the Maude Adverse Event Report involving a woman who was implanted with a harmful Prolift device. On April 5, 2019 MAUDE Adverse Event Report 141104027 involved a woman who was implanted with the Prolift +M Total (anterior and posterior system in 2010). In 2011, she experienced persistent constipation, pain [...]
Dr. Greg Vigna comments on AUG's failure to recognize the chronic pain that results from the foreign body response of the mesh implantation. “Do not use single-incision sub-urethral short mesh sling insertion except as part of a clinical trial….Do not offer a transobturator approach unless there are specific clinical circumstances in which the retropubic [...]