Covid-19 costs Coloplast USD 33m in extended court cases

Medtech company Coloplast has set aside a further USD 33m to pay for compensation in the remaning cases over its vaginal mesh product in the US. The covid-19 crisis has delayed court cases and increased the cost of legal counsel, but the financial director expects this amount to be enough to but the cases behind them.
Financial director Anders Lonning-Skovgaard | Photo: Niels Hougaard/ERH
Financial director Anders Lonning-Skovgaard | Photo: Niels Hougaard/ERH
BY ULRICH QUISTGAARD, TRANSLATED BY CATHERINE BRETT

In Coloplast's Q2 financial report released on Thursday there was a special column for the expensive cloud that is still hanging over the medtech company in the US.

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