A federal jury has ordered Medtronic to pay $88 million to an Alabama couple after finding that the company's Covidien unit failed to adequately warn physicians about risks associated with its Symbotex hernia mesh. Jurors did not find that hernia mesh is defective or unsafe for everyone who receives it. Plaintiffs' counsel described the award as the largest compensatory damages award in the history of mesh product litigation in the United States. More than 2,400 Covidien hernia mesh lawsuits are pending in the consolidated federal proceeding. This is now the last major body of hernia mesh litigation still active, after units of Becton Dickinson and Johnson & Johnson largely resolved claims against them.