TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) - The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled it was wrong to bar a medical device company from explaining to jurors why it didn't perform clinical trials on pelvic mesh products while plaintiff lawyers frequently argued it was because the company was too callous.
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J&J s Bid To Ax $15M Mesh Verdict Meets Skeptical NJ Court
Law360 (January 25, 2021, 9:42 PM EST) A New Jersey state appellate panel on Monday challenged Johnson & Johnson s bid to overturn a $15 million verdict on the grounds that jurors were not allowed to consider the defense that its Ethicon unit could not have designed a pelvic mesh product in a way that would have prevented a woman s injuries.
During a remote hearing on the company s appeal, J&J attorney Maha M. Kabbash of Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP urged the panel to throw out the 2017 verdict in the suit filed by Elizabeth Hrymoc and her husband over the Prolift device because the trial judge.