(December 22, 2015, 10:35 AM EST) -- PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania state court jury on Dec. 21 returned a $5.5 million verdict in the first pelvic mesh case from the state’s complex litigation docket to go to trial, according to one of the plaintiff’s attorneys (Patricia L. Hammons v. Ethicon Inc., No. 130503913, Pa. Comm. Pls., Philadelphia Co.).

Plaintiff attorney Shanin Specter of Kline & Specter in Philadelphia told Mealey Publications that the jury in the Philadelphia County Common Pleas Court found that the Prolift pelvic mesh device made by the Ethicon Inc....