Jury awards woman $7.76 million in damages for J&J mesh

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Jury awards woman $7.76 million in damages for J&J mesh

(Reuters) - A New Jersey jury Thursday ordered Johnson & Johnson and a subsidiary to pay $7.76 million in punitive damages to a South Dakota nurse who claimed she was harmed by the company's vaginal mesh. Together with earlier compensatory damages, the decision means J&J and its Ethicon subsidiary would be responsible for paying Linda Gross, 47, of Watertown, South Dakota, some $11.1 million. J&J said in a statement that it plans to appeal the decision and that the punitive damages were unsupported by the evidence. The product, before being taken off the U.S. ...

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