Victims of transvaginal mesh injuries earned another victory over device manufacturers. C.R. Bard agreed to pay $200 million to settle roughly 3,000 cases, concluding about 20 percent of remaining lawsuits against mesh manufacturers.
The settlement resolved the majority of the company’s transvaginal mesh cases remaining in multidistrict litigation (MDL) courts.
Plaintiffs filed more than 80,000 cases in MDLs, claiming the devices injured them. Thus far, manufacturers agreed to settlements or lost verdicts resulting in more than $1 billion of payments.
Transvaginal mesh is a device made of polypropylene plastic which doctors insert through a woman’s vagina to treat pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI).
