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Ethicon Says Fla. Pelvic Mesh Suit Was Filed Too Late
Law360 (July 7, 2021, 6:20 PM EDT) Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon Inc. tried to fight off a suit over an allegedly defective pelvic mesh product by telling a Florida federal judge on Wednesday that the plaintiff knew something was wrong not long after her surgery and waited too long to sue.
In a Zoom hearing before U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon, Ethicon s attorney Andrew Kruppa told the court that in order for plaintiff Adelheid Pirlein s lawsuit, filed Aug. 6, 2012, to be timely, she could not have known that something was wrong with her pelvic mesh before Aug. 6, 2008.