Jury Awards $13.5 Million Dollars in Second Pelvic Mesh Trial

A Pennsylvania jury has handed up a $13.5 million award to a woman claiming she was permanently injured from a pelvic mesh device that eroded inside her. The jury handed up the award in Carlino v. Ethicon late Wednesday morning, giving the plaintiff $3.5 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages. Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon was the defendant in the case. The verdict is the second from the pelvic mesh mass tort program to hit trial. It was also the second multi-million dollar plaintiff’s victory from the pelvic mesh cases. In December, a jury handed up a $12.5 million award to a woman making similar claims about an Ethicon-made pelvic mesh device.