A Texas man has filed a lawsuit charging that he suffered metal poisoning after a DePuy hip implant. The plaintiff, Brucer Bernier, filed his complaint on August 31, 2012 in the Northern District of Texas. Plaintiff not warned of Pinnacle risks According to the lawsuit,... Read More

After injuries he claims to have sustained as a result of his Stryker Trident hip implant, Florida resident Harvey A. Schneider filed a lawsuit against the Howmedica Osteonics Corp. On January 20, 2012, he undertook his Stryker hip litigation in the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, in... Read More

With around 180 complaints now coordinated in the New Jersey Supreme Court, the number of plaintiffs filing Stryker hip litigation continues to grow. The coordination of cases has yet to be classified as a mass tort, but it has provided centralization of similar cases to... Read More

A man who was implanted with the Zimmer Durom Cup in both of his hips and allegedly suffered Zimmer hip complications from both implants has filed a lawsuit against Zimmer. The plaintiff, Morris Reynolds of Arkansas, filed his lawsuit on September 4, 2012 in the... Read More

On September 1, 2014, the first bellwether trial of the Pinnacle hip replacement lawsuit MDL 2244 will consolidate complaints relating to DePuy’s Pinnacle hip devices. In May 2012, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) consolidated federal DePuy Pinnacle hip lawsuit complaints into multidistrict litigation.... Read More

In his complaint against DePuy ASR, Iowa resident Gary Starkweather alleges complications from the ASR XL Acetabular Hip Replacement System and ASR Hip Resurfacing System. The case was filed by his DePuy hip lawyer on July 9, 2012 in the U.S. District Court for the... Read More

On August 28, 2012, a lawsuit against Zimmer was filed in California by a plaintiff who claims his injuries after hip replacement surgery were due to a faulty implant device. The case was filed in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. According to his... Read More

A Stryker hip implant lawsuit was filed on July 5, 2012 in the U.S. District Court of Texas (Houston). Mel Harrison, a 44-year-old corrections officer and resident of Texas named as defendants Stryker Corporation, Stryker Sales Corporation, and Howmedica Osteonics Corp. Harrison’s case was filed... Read More