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Thousands of women are due to share hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation after Johnson & Johnson failed to overturn a landmark ruling finding it concealed the true extent of complications of damaging medical devices.
A Federal Court judge in 2019 found the pharmaceutical giant acted negligently and concealed the true extent of complications from the pelvic implants.
Hundreds of the synthetic implants eroded, extruded or caused infection without warning - leaving women in chronic pain and with damage to surrounding organs. Instructions for Use brochures handed to surgeons were also found to have minimised harm and exaggerated the benefits of the devices.
Australian court upholds Johnson & Johnson vaginal implants verdict 2 minutes read
Sydney, Australia, Mar 5 (efe-epa).- The Federal Court of Australia at a plenary session on Friday upheld a ruling ordering multinational giant Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Ethicon to pay a million-dollar compensation to a group of women with faulty vaginal mesh implants sold by the company.
In March 2020, Federal Court Judge Anna Katzmann had ordered the American multinational to pay AU$ 2.6 million ($2 million) in damages to Kathryn Gill, Diane Dawson and Ann Sanders, who led a class action lawsuit that has been joined by 10,000 women.
“No error has been demonstrated in the exercise of the primary judge’s discretion to order the Injunction,” read the ruling published on Friday on the court’s website.
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Federal court dismisses appeal after company found to have acted negligently and concealed complications from pelvic implants
Hundreds of Johnson & Johnson’s synthetic pelvic implants eroded, extruded or caused infection without warning – leaving women in chronic pain and with damage to surrounding organs. Photograph: Emily Critchfield/Duke Health
Hundreds of Johnson & Johnson’s synthetic pelvic implants eroded, extruded or caused infection without warning – leaving women in chronic pain and with damage to surrounding organs. Photograph: Emily Critchfield/Duke Health
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More than 10,000 women are due to share in hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation after Johnson & Johnson failed to overturn a landmark ruling finding it concealed the true extent of complications of damaging medical devices.
Largest women’s health class action decision upheld
By Jerome Doraisamy|05 March 2021
A landmark decision from November 2019 has been upheld, delivering findings in favour of thousands of women whose “lives were destroyed”.
Landmark judgment
In November 2019, Justice Anna Katzmann of the Federal Court of Australia found in favour of women impacted by pelvic mesh implants sold by Johnson & Johnson and Ethicon which were “not fit for purpose”. The class action – “the largest women’s health class action in Australia’s history”, according to Shine – commenced in October 2012 and culminated in a trial that ran over seven months starting in July 2017.