Key Attorneys Might Get $366 M in Boston Pelvic Mesh MDL

Key Attorneys Might Get $366 M in Boston Pelvic Mesh MDL

Introduction

In a pretrial order, U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Goodwin announced that attorneys representing thousands of plaintiffs in the pelvic mesh product liability cases against Boston Scientific might receive $366 million or 5% of the total recoveries in the cases.

Judge Goodwin wrote that the plaintiffs' attorneys were required to spend tens of millions of dollars over nine years while fighting for 104,000 patients. He stated, tens of thousands of cases have been resolved so far for about $7.25 billion and, these costs would continue to grow but are a small part of what the common benefit fund was formed to compensate. To calculate the costs petitioned for the 5% sum to be set aside for their colleagues whose work was beneficial to the plaintiffs, a committee of plaintiffs' attorneys is appointed.  

Pelvic mesh lawsuits, filed against Boston Scientific Corp., are consolidated before Judge Joseph R. Goodwin in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia as a part of multidistrict litigation (MDL No. 2326: In Re: Boston Scientific Corp. Pelvic Repair System Products Liability Litigation) for coordinated pretrial proceedings.