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1. Endo's AMS Unit Settles More Than 100 Vaginal Mesh Suits

   Jul 10, 2015 | Law360

   By Sindhu Sundar
   
   
   Endo International PLC unit American Medical Systems Inc. has resolved more than 100 injury suits that were part of consolidated multidistrict litigation over health complications alleged caused by an assortment of vaginal mesh devices, including its Apogee and Perigee products, the device maker said on Friday.

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1. Endo's AMS Unit Settles More Than 100 Vaginal Mesh Suits

   Jul 10, 2015 | Law360

   By Sindhu Sundar

   Law360, New York (July 10, 2015, 4:51 PM ET) -- Endo International PLC unit American Medical Systems Inc. has resolved more than 100 injury suits that were part of consolidated multidistrict litigation over health complications alleged caused by an assortment of vaginal mesh devices, including its Apogee and Perigee products, the device maker said on Friday. 
   

   
   In a filing in West Virginia federal court, where the MDL is consolidated, the device maker indicated that it has settled more than 100 suits in which plaintiffs claimed to have suffered injuries after being implanted with its devices. The suits targeted devices, including the Apogee and Perigee systems as well as the MiniArc Sling and the IntePro Y Sling, among other products. 
   
   An attorney for AMS could not immediately be reached for comment on Friday, and Mark Lanier of The Lanier Law Firm, who is representing some of the settling plaintiffs, declined to comment. Attorneys for the other settling plaintiffs could not immediately be reached for comment on Friday. 
   
   In May, U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin, who is overseeing the litigation, said that he’d been informed by counsel for AMS that approximately 108 plaintiffs had reached a settlement with Endo and that the parties had until April 2016 to submit an agreed order of dismissal with prejudice; otherwise, the cases will be dismissed without prejudice.
   
   In April, Endo told the judge that it had “compromised and settled all claims” with about 360 cases.
   
   In April last year, Endo said that it had agreed to pay $830 million to settle a large chunk of suits over the alleged mesh injuries. Its agreement was with several plaintiffs' firms — including Motley Rice LLC, Blasingame Burch Garrard & Ashley PC, Levin Simes LLP and Clark Love & Hutson GP — and sought to resolve some 20,000 claims in the ongoing litigation.
   
   Plaintiffs in the suits have claimed that the vaginal mesh devices at issue are defective and have caused chronic pain, incontinence and other injuries.
   
   In April 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued two proposed orders that would reclassify surgical mesh for transvaginal repair of pelvic organ prolapse as a high-risk device and require manufacturers to apply for premarket approval with the agency.
   
   The settling plaintiffs are represented by Andrus Wagstaff, Motley Rice, The Lanier Law Firm, Fears Nachawati, Simmons Hanly Conroy LLC, Waters & Kraus and Wilson Law. 
   
   AMS is represented by Barbara Binis of Reed Smith LLP. 
   
   The multidistrict litigation is In re: American Medical Systems Inc. Pelvic Repair System Products Liability Litigation, case number 2:12-md-02325, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.

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