Women injured by the defective pelvic mesh implants may receive higher returns on the $300 million class action settlement.9News
Women injured through defective Johnson & Johnson pelvic mesh implants may receive higher returns on a $300 million class action settlement after a former chief judge has been called on to find the best deal.
Signing off on the headline $300 million figure in March, Justice Michael Lee did not agree with Shine's proposed legal costs and other expenses which would have left affected women with about $174 million. On Tuesday, the judge appointed James Allsop KC as a referee to assess which of these different schemes would bring about "fair and reasonable" returns for women injured by the implants.
"It was impossible not to be affected by the poignant stories told. The intimate, human element of this settlement approval application loomed large at all times," Justice Lee wrote. In November 2019, the judge found the company acted negligently and concealed the true extent of complications from the devices.Challenges to this decision went all the way to the High Court, which dismissed the appeal in November last year.
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