California Attorney General Xavier Becerra outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington after oral arguments in the consolidated cases “Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California,” on Nov. 11, 2019. Photo by Diego Radzinschi/ALM
In the first verdict to come out of an attorney general’s lawsuit over transvaginal mesh devices, a San Diego judge ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay nearly $344 million to the state of California.
The 88-page statement of decision by San Diego Superior Court Judge Eddie Sturgeon found that Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary, Ethicon Inc., misled doctors about the safety of their devices by downplaying the risks through a “combination of false statements, misleading half-truths, and omissions.”
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