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OUTCOME – In the first verdict to come out of an attorney general’s lawsuit over transvaginal mesh devices, a San Diego judge has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay nearly $344 million to the state of California, Amanda Bronstad reports. Johnson, which sold more than 30,000 pelvic mesh products in California from 2008 to 2014, is one of several manufacturers of the devices hit by individual lawsuits that, at one time, peaked at nearly 100,000. Many of those cases have since settled.

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