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Boston Scientific has agreed to pay a total of $21.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed by a group of Canadian women who suffered transvaginal mesh complications.
About 325 women who received Boston Scientific vaginal mesh implants will be eligible for compensation from the transvaginal mesh settlement. The amount each woman will receive depends on the severity of the complications and medical issues they suffered.
Transvaginal mesh implants, which are made of polypropylene, are designed to reinforce a weak vaginal wall and are used to treat pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence. However, many women who received vaginal mesh implants have reportedly suffered serious side effects.
Lead plaintiff Susan Vester reportedly had transvaginal mesh implanted in 2010 to prevent incontinence. According to the vaginal mesh class action lawsuit, she experienced transvaginal mesh complications including urinary problems, pain during sexual intercourse, and emotional stress. She also says she had difficulty walking after receiving the vaginal mesh implant.
Susan asserts she was not aware of the risks when she decided to have vaginal mesh implant surgery. She claims she would not have gone through with the surgery if she had known about the transvaginal mesh risks.
Other reported vaginal mesh side effects include abdominal pain, infections, nerve damage, and organ perforation.
According to the transvaginal mesh class action lawsuit, Boston Scientific negligently designed and sold the vaginal mesh products, which Vester argues were defective and unsafe.
Many vaginal mesh implant recipients have been required to undergo additional surgeries to alleviate the vaginal mesh side effects.
Approximately 25,000 transvaginal mesh implant surgeries are performed each year in Canada.
Boston Scientific has denied the allegations that its vaginal mesh products are defective and dangerous, and has placed much of the blame on women’s pre-existing medical conditions.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Paul Perell certified the vaginal mesh class action lawsuit in February 2017.
“There is some basis in fact that the polypropylene mesh in each of Boston Scientific’s transvaginal devices has a clinically significant deficiency,” Perell wrote in the transvaginal mesh class action certification order. “Boston Scientific’s arguments based on an alleged multiplicity of differences between the products, patients, and the complications, do not negate the commonality of the proposed common issues.”
Last summer, Boston Scientific stopped selling its vaginal mesh products to treat pelvic organ prolapse. Following a safety review, Health Canada also removed mesh implants for the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse from the Canadian market. Vaginal mesh products may still be used to treat urinary incontinence or for hernia repair.
The United States has also been faced with reports of significant transvaginal mesh implant complications. In April 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration implemented a ban on the sale and distribution of transvaginal mesh products after it concluded the vaginal mesh manufacturers failed to show a reasonable assurance of effectiveness and safety in their premarket applications.
A settlement approval hearing will be held on June 12.
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The plaintiffs are represented by Daniel E.H. Bach, Jill McCartney and Elizabeth deBoer of Siskinds Law Firm.
The Transvaginal Mesh Class Action Lawsuit is Susan Vester, et al., v. Boston Scientific Ltd., Case No. CV-15-527310 CP, in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Canada.
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2 thoughts onTransvaginal Mesh Implant Recipients Reach $21.5M Settlement
I have had this implant and had to have repair surgery and experience many many many complications. PLEASE add/ contact me I would like to join
hi, I got the implant about seventeen years ago in Ontario, I have had serious ongoing infection with bleeding for 10 months now and am on 3 months of antibiotics plus I have had many
anti-biotics over the last six months all to no avail.
it’s at the moment not bleeding but my urine has an odour that’s not pleasant!
the doctor is not blaming the implant! and nobody will admit it could be except
one urologist who said might be!.