A Philadelphia law firm has scored the first plaintiff’s victory in one of more than 600 cases against a Boston-based medical supply company that manufactured an allegedly defective bladder sling device.
A 12-member jury awarded Lizzi Jackson $400,000 late last week for injuries she sustained after a bladder sling manufactured by Boston Scientific Corp. was surgically inserted by Dr. Michael Chiusano. Over time, the sling eroded the skin in her vagina, plaintiff’s attorney Mark Jaffe, a senior associate at Jaffe & Hough, said. A bladder sling is a hammock-like device used to take pressure off the bladder in incontinent women.
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