A federal jury has ordered Medtronic to pay $88 million to an Alabama couple after finding that the company's Covidien unit failed to adequately warn physicians about risks associated with its Symbotex hernia mesh.
The verdict came on August 4 following a three-week trial before U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston, where the federal hernia mesh litigation is consolidated. Larry Patterson, 61, received the implant during a 2017 surgery. The jury awarded $77 million to Patterson and $11 million to his wife, Tammy Patterson, on her loss of consortium claim.
