A California jury is deliberating whether Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon Inc is liable in the first trial over injuries allegedly caused by the TVT Abbrevo. After a five-week trial, closing arguments took place Thursday before Kern County Superior Court Judge Lorna Brumfield in the 2013 lawsuit brought by Coleen Perry, who was implanted with Ethicon’s Abbrevo in 2011 to treat stress urinary incontinence.
The allegations related to the Abbrevo model are similar to those of Ethicon’s other TVT lines and the verdict will be indicative to settlement talks related to other Ethicon product lines. We will inform you of the Verdict as soon aw we hear anything.