Opinion ID: 4151593
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 8

Heading: Deborah Rogers

Text: Plaintiff Deborah Rogers received her ObTape implant in September 2005. Thereafter, she suffered a thigh abscess and pain and swelling in her leg. To this date, Rogers suffers from urge incontinence and passes stool intermittently through her vagina. The ObTape was surgically removed in July 2006. After seeing a 15 Case: 16-10119 Date Filed: 03/09/2017 Page: 16 of 28 television advertisement regarding transvaginal mesh litigation, Rogers filed this suit in September 2012. Rogers alleges that she had no reason to know her ObTape was the cause of her injuries, as none of her doctors informed her it was. Mentor points out that Rogers herself admitted in her deposition that she learned that ObTape was the cause of her injuries while at the hospital in July 2006. Rogers disputes this and in portions of her deposition, as well as in her brief, Rogers alleges that she did not realize Mentor’s role in her injuries until she saw the television advertisement. The district court stated that Rogers knew in July 2006 that she had a foreign body (the ObTape) hanging from her vaginal area and that she had to have it surgically removed; therefore, Rogers knew in July 2006 that ObTape caused her injuries. In re Mentor Corp. Obtape Transobturator Sling Prods. Liab. Litig., 2015 WL 8578364, at  (M.D. Ga. Dec. 9, 2015).