Plaintiffs Charles H. and Joanne H. are the latest plaintiffs to file a hernia mesh complications lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson and Ethicon Inc.

The plaintiffs argue in their hernia mesh complications lawsuit that they were never told about the possibility of severe side effects associated with the implantation of the hernia mesh patch referred to as the Proceed Ventral Patch.

The hernia mesh complications lawsuit says that the Proceed Ventral Patch manufactured by the defendants caused the unreasonable risk of harm to plaintiff, Charles H. Some of the side effects reported as hernia mesh complications in this and other lawsuits include hernia recurrence, adhesion formation, pain, bowel complications, infections, and fistula and seroma formation.

The hernia mesh complications lawsuit says that the couple were not warned about the likely inflammatory body response caused by the nine layers in the Proceed Ventral Patch.

The couple also alleges that there are other defects present in the device, including non-conforming subcomponents, and the degradation of polymers associated with gamma irradiation.

The man who filed the hernia mesh complications lawsuit says he originally received the Proceed Ventral Patch as part of hernia repair surgery in 2012 in Florida.

The hernia mesh complications lawsuit says that there were significant reasons to believe that the manufacturers knew about the risks of breakdown and inflammatory responses in patients, but that these were not disclosed to the medical community or to prospective patients.

According to the claim, the man involved in this case and many other claims have had to learn to cope with the serious side effects and problems following implantation and argue that the manufacturer should be held accountable for failure to warn.

The primary issue in the hernia mesh complications lawsuit allegedly has to do with the polypropylene material used in the multi-layered hernia mesh, which the plaintiff says further increases the rate of infection and inflammatory response and other problems such as foreign body response, extrusion, mesh migration, and hematomas.

The hernia mesh complications lawsuit says that the defendants failed to warn the patient that the hernia mesh used in the surgery creates a solid barrier which prevents the body from appropriately transporting or clearing liquid. This can ultimately lead to infections, seroma formation or fistula formation.

The hernia mesh complications lawsuit also says that the defendants did not complete any clinical studies or trials prior to marketing the multi-layered hernia mesh that allegedly caused the plaintiff so much pain.

As with all medical devices, patients might face risks after being implanted. However, a growing number of claims, adverse event reports, and lawsuits against the makers of these devices highlight the dangers faced with failure to warn.

Some of these patients say that the manufacturers are minimizing the potential complications and leaving victims implanted with the device to face the severe side effects and related problems.

The Hernia Mesh Complications Lawsuit is case MID-L-008199-18 in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Middlesex County.