{"id":116723,"date":"2021-03-23T22:23:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T05:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=116723"},"modified":"2021-03-23T22:23:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T05:23:14","slug":"california-department-of-justice-announces-188-6-million-multistate-settlement-with-medical-device-manufacturer-boston-scientific-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=116723","title":{"rendered":"California Department of Justice Announces $188.6 Million Multistate Settlement with Medical Device Manufacturer Boston Scientific Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacramento, CA… The California Department of Justice and Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced a multistate settlement with Boston Scientific Corporation (Boston) to resolve allegations of deceptive marketing of its surgical mesh products for women. The settlement requires Boston to pay $188.6 million to 47 states and the District of Columbia to resolve allegations that it deceptively marketed transvaginal surgical mesh devices to patients. California\u2019s share of the settlement is $19.3 million.<\/p>\n

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Surgical mesh is a synthetic woven fabric that is implanted in the pelvic floor through the vagina to treat common health conditions in women such as stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse. These are common conditions faced by women due to a weakening in their pelvic floor muscles caused by childbirth, age, or other factors. Although use of surgical mesh involves the risk of serious complications and is not proven to be any more effective than traditional tissue repair, millions\u00a0of women were implanted with the device\u00a0and thousands of women are alleged to have suffered serious complications resulting from these devices.<\/p>\n

The complaint alleges that\u00a0Boston misrepresented the safety of these\u00a0products\u00a0by failing to disclose the full\u00a0range\u00a0of\u00a0potential serious and irreversible complications caused by mesh, including chronic pain,\u00a0voiding dysfunction, and new onset\u00a0of incontinence. The settlement with Boston follows a $344 million\u00a0California\u00a0Superior Court judgment\u00a0in January 2020 against surgical mesh manufacturer Johnson & Johnson<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0$60 million\u00a0multistate settlement with C.R. Bard Inc.\u00a0in September 2020<\/a>\u00a0to resolve an\u00a0investigation into Bard\u2019s marketing of its\u00a0pelvic\u00a0mesh products\u00a0for\u00a0women.<\/p>\n

The settlement provides comprehensive injunctive relief.\u00a0Boston has agreed to the settlement\u2019s injunctive terms which include but are not limited to the following reforms:<\/p>\n

Marketing Reforms:<\/b><\/p>\n

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Sacramento, CA… The California Department of Justice and Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced a multistate settlement with Boston Scientific Corporation (Boston) to resolve allegations of deceptive marketing of its surgical mesh products for women. The settlement requires Boston to pay $188.6 million to 47 states and the District of Columbia to resolve allegations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1599,"featured_media":80592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,33,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-health-fitness","category-life-style","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dojpng.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}