Opinion ID: 4151593
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 13

Heading: Margie Greenman

Text: Plaintiff Margie Greenman received her ObTape implant in January 2004. She experienced vaginal pain and was told that her ObTape had eroded through her vaginal wall. She underwent two surgeries to treat this erosion, one in December 2004 and one in 2010. She continues to experience pain, bleeding, urine leakage, and has had to forgo sexual intercourse because of its painfulness. After reading a pamphlet in a doctor’s waiting room in 2011, Greenman made the connection between ObTape and her injuries and filed suit in April 2013. 20 Case: 16-10119 Date Filed: 03/09/2017 Page: 21 of 28 Greenman alleges that her doctor’s warnings before surgery included a warning that there is a risk of infection whenever you insert a foreign object into the body. She therefore did not know that ObTape was causally connected to her injuries until she read the pamphlet. Mentor alleges that Greenman was told that the ObTape had eroded and therefore she knew of ObTape’s connection to her injuries. The district court reasoned that, “Greenman’s doctor diagnosed her with a vaginal erosion and told her that he needed to excise the exposed portion of ObTape . . . . Therefore, Greenman knew by November 2004 that there was a likely connection between ObTape and some of her injuries.” Id.