Jury Selection Begins in First Pelvic Mesh Trial

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Ethicon Inc. are set to defend claims of defective design and failure to warn in the first pelvic mesh case to proceed to trial.

Jury selection began on Jan. 7 in the Atlantic County (N.J.) Superior Court in a case in which Linda Gross, a South Dakota nurse, claims she sustained various injuries after her surgeon implanted a Gynecare Prolift Pelvic Floor Repair System during a 2006 procedure to treat her posterior pelvic prolapse. Superior Court Judge Carol Higbee will oversee the trial.

According to the November 2008 complaint, Gross …