Surgical Mesh Injury Cases
Coffey & Nichols have been involved in hernia and vaginal mesh cases. These cases are sometimes filed in a class action type proceeding, where there are hundreds or thousands or claims, or they sometimes proceed individually, especially when the class action is over.
Product liability claims against the manufacturer and distributor for a dangerous mesh may be made, especially if you experience things like chronic pain, infection of the mesh, and moving (migration or erosion) of the mesh to places it isn’t supposed to go.
A claim for medical negligence claim against the doctor who placed the mesh may be made, for things like a bad choice of mesh, failure to give proper warnings, or a bad installation. The medical negligence claim, with its short statute of limitations, may have run by the time you realize there is problem.
Learn more | Medical Negligence and Dangerous Products
What to do if you are hurt by surgical mesh
First take care of your or your loved one’s health. If you can, you or your lawyer should try to make sure that any removed mesh and tissue is held on to and photographed. You or your lawyer should ask the surgeon and the pathology department of the hospital to photograph and hold on to anything they take out of you. Keep any documents given to you about the mesh. When you’re at a doctor or a hospital grab their business card.
It is okay to make notes or a timeline of what happened or how it happened but if you are doing it in order to talk or show to a lawyer later write at the top “For a Lawyer.” Watch what you say about the cause of your injuries to the medical providers. They often write it down and what you say can help or hurt you later. Don’t lie to them. If they ask you if you had similar problems before tell the truth, but explain if they are worse now. Don’t post anything on social media or the internet that you wouldn’t want the other side to see. Later on down the line these posts and other internet activity may have to be given to the defendant if it has anything to do with what happened or your injuries including what you can and can’t do since the accident.
In order to evaluate your case we will need to see a copy of your medical records and bills. If we handle your case, we will normally gather all the relevant medical records and billing. If you want to gather your medical records yourself to get a head start on a case or just to get them, click below for tips on how to do it.
Learn more | How to Order Records
