Health your username April 29, 2021 The 11th Circuit on Thursday affirmed summary judgment for the defendants in a case filed by an individual against Ethicon Inc. over an allegedly faulty mesh pelvic implant, declining to create an exception to state doctrine that says medical device manufacturers must only warn physicians, not patients, of possible adverse effects. Charlotte Salinero and her husband originally sued Ethicon and its parent company, Johnson & Johnson, in the Southern District of Florida after Salinero experienced adverse health effects purportedly resulting from a surgery implanting Ethicon’s Artisyn Y-Mesh device. The defendants moved for summary judgment — and won — because of the learned intermediary doctrine governing communication between medical device makers and physicians.