Mass Tort Litigation Funder Indicted In Pelvic Mesh Litigation

We've blogged a number of times about how litigation funding arrangements involving personal injuries and mass torts collide with various ethical and statutory obligations owed by either the funders or the lawyers they fund. These all involve United States litigation. But when the New York Times reported on the questionable funding arrangements that have occurred in Pelvic Mesh litigation in its 2018 article, "How Profiteers Lure Women Into Often-Unneeded Surgery," we knew that something more was going on. Since, as the article revealed, "[p]eople are claiming the Fifth," then an investigation of possible criminal activity was a definite possibility.

Now that's happened.