Johnson & Johnson Hit With $20 Million Verdict in Philly Pelvic Mesh Trial as More Lawsuits Loom

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A jury ruled that Johnson & Johnson needs to shell out millions for a New Jersey woman who suffered serious injuries after being implanted with a vaginal mesh device.

The jury awarded 56-year-old Peggy Engleman $20 million — $2.5 million in compensatory and $17.5 in punitive damages – after her attorneys claimed during a three-week trial in Common Pleas Court that the TVT-Secur medical device was not only defective, but that Johnson & Johnson and its Ethicon subsidiary failed to warn of its risks.

Engleman had the device implanted in her in 2007 in an effort to relieve stress urinary incontinence.

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