AN ATHENS LAW FIRM has filed its fourth suit against a California-based medical products supplier for plaintiffs who say they suffered painful and permanent injuries from a synthetic mesh sling inserted to relieve urinary incontinence.
The new suit brings to 20 the total number of plaintiffs, but lawyers with Athens’ Blasingame Burch Garrard Ashley say there are likely to be thousands more women who required multiple surgeries and extensive antibiotic regimens to relieve problems caused by ObTape-36,000 of which Mentor Corp. reportedly sold in the U.S. between 2003 and 2006.
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