The firms recognized in this category helped highlight for patients nationwide—or, unfortunately, for their survivors—that litigation sometimes is necessary to hold medical-device manufacturers accountable for risky products. Our winning firm focused on hip-replacement devices, scoring a more than $500 million verdict—one of the largest verdicts during 2016 and in a medical-device case in U.S. history. Among the finalists were firms that challenged the providers of transvaginal mesh devices. These are surgically implanted products, aimed at preventing in women incontinence, but which have been found to erode over time, leaving plastic shards imbedded in patients.
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