Johnson & Johnson vaginal mesh presentation featured lingerie-clad women, court told

Executive jokingly included picture of the crotch area of a woman in presentation about mesh implants

A senior Johnson & Johnson executive included inappropriate jokes about pictures of scantily clad women in a presentation on the company’s controversial transvaginal mesh implants, a court has heard.

Piet Hinoul, a vice-president of J&J’s product development arm, Ethicon, was speaking at a transvaginal mesh meeting in France in March 2009, discussing the devices and the response they produced in women’s bodies.

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