Wagstaff & Cartmell

Tom Cartmell served as lead trial counsel for San Francisco Unified School District in the first JUUL bellwether trial against Altria; after plaintiffs rested, Altria agreed to pay $235 million to resolve roughly 6,000 pending e-vapor claims nationwide.

A federal jury in Hammond, Indiana found that Ethicon's Prolift transvaginal mesh was defectively designed and inadequately warned against, awarding Barbara and Anton Kaiser $35 million. A judge reduced the punitive damages, leaving a $20 million verdict that the Seventh Circuit affirmed in full in 2020.

A Los Angeles jury returned the first-ever social media product-liability verdict in March 2026, finding Meta and YouTube negligent for designing platforms that addicted a minor plaintiff and caused her lasting mental health harm, awarding $6 million in a bellwether trial coordinating roughly 1,600 California claims.

A Kern County jury handed Coleen Perry a $5.7 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon unit on March 5, 2015, in the first trial ever to reach a jury over Ethicon's TVT-Abbrevo polypropylene mesh sling.

A West Virginia federal jury awarded Jo Huskey $3.27 million after finding Ethicon's TVT-O pelvic mesh sling defective, making it the first federal bellwether verdict in the massive Ethicon MDL.

An Orlando federal jury awarded Virginia Redding $2.5 million after finding that Coloplast's NovaSilk pelvic organ prolapse mesh was defectively designed and that the company had concealed known risks from her physician, in what was the first jury verdict against Coloplast for that specific device.