State Judge Consolidates Minnesota Vaginal Mesh Cases

MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota state judge has consolidated seven pelvic mesh device injury cases, finding that they "all flow from a similar set of facts arising out of the design, manufacture, and sale of implantable medical devices used to assist in the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence and vaginal prolapse." McNatt, et al., v. American Medical Systems Inc., No. 27CV11-3933 (Minn. Dist. Ct., Hennepin Cty.).

In a Nov. 30 order, Judge Robert A. Blaeser assigned the cases to Judge Ronald L. Abrams of the Hennepin County (Minn.) District Court. Judge Blaeser found that the actions, all filed against American …