Carlino, S. v. Ethicon, Inc.

OPINION BY STABILE, J.:

In this product liability action, Appellants, Ethicon, Inc. and Johnson & Johnson, Ethicon's parent company (collectively "Ethicon"), and Appellees, Sharon and Charles Carlino, appeal and cross-appeal, 1 respectively, from a judgment of $ 13,500,000.00 entered in favor of the Carlinos in *99 the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. The jury determined that Ms. Carlino suffered injuries from Ethicon's defective design of, and failure to provide adequate warnings about, the TVT device ("TVT"), a medical product used to treat stress urinary incontinence ("SUI"). The jury also…