Fundmysuit.com aims to help Kugel Mesh victims fund their cases

Sept. 28, 2010 - PRLog -- Since the closing of the U.S. District Court trial in August in which Rhode Island residents Christopher and Laura Thorpe were awarded $1.3 million dollars in damages from Davol, Inc. and C.R. Bard, Inc., lawyers have been inundated with calls from alleged victims of personal injury from receiving Kugel® Mesh patch as part of their hernia surgery. So too has the legal funding industry been met with numerous requests for its funding services, and leading the response to these claims is Fundmysuit.com (Bridgeview Legal Funding Inc.), a company on the rise within the industry.

The company, which provides funding to eligible applicants prior to their pending settlement lawsuits and recently has worked with scores of individuals in their cases against GlaxoSmithKline related to the adverse health effects of the diabetes drug Avandia, has had its hands full with all the requests for funding in the wake of the aforementioned August ruling. As Fundmysuit.com CEO Charles Cocuzza stated, “Calls from people needing cash advances for their pending Kugel® Mesh lawsuits have drastically increased in the last month, so much so that we have assigned one person to handle all of the applications."

Thankfully, the company has been able to meet the needs of its clients. Cocuzza added, “With our online application, we have been able to help some people extremely fast.” Fundmysuit.com (http://www.fundmysuit.com) does not add a stipulation to how its cash advances may be used (aside from stating it does not support illegal use of monies), but the implicit design is that its funds go to those personal injury victims who have legitimate concerns about covering their legal fees, the costs of their medical care, and the incidental price of everyday life.

Cases like those of the Thorpes and others stem from a persistent problem with the Kugel® Mesh patch model marketed by Davol and Bard attributed to negligence in its design. The hernia patch, described on Bard’s website as “the first self expanding patch designed to address both sides of open ventral hernia repair” and intended to limit the extent of the incision needed in hernia surgery, has suffered repeated instances of defective operation. Specifically, the patented “memory recoil ring” behind the expansion of the Kugel® Mesh patch is prone to breakage, and under such a scenario, severe internal injuries and even death may occur. Not surprisingly, the FDA issued numerous Class 1 recalls of specific lot numbers in 2005, 2006 and 2007, the most serious warning of its type.  

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FundMysuit.com. is a funding firm which gives non-recourse loans to people who are awaiting the outcome of a pending lawsuit as well as other types of loans within the legal community.