After the recall of Stryker's Trident hip replacement system components, which took place in January of 2008, a number of patients filed suit against the device manufacturer. On the 31st of March, 2009, the New Jersey Supreme Court centralized all pending and future cases involving... Read More

Kentucky resident William Hunter joined MDL 2244 on August 29, 2012. The DePuy Pinnacle lawsuit is located in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (Dallas) and consolidates claims of hip complications—including implant loosening and metallosis—in the hip devices. According to Hunter’s... Read More

Arguments will soon be presented before the U.S. Judicial Panel on multidistrict litigation (JPML) on whether to consolidate all federal Biomet M2A Magnum hip lawsuits into one court. A notice released on August 8, 2012 states that the JPML has scheduled a hearing on September... Read More

In August 2010, DePuy Orthopaedics implemented a voluntary DePuy hip implant recall of their ASR device because of a reported failure rate of 12-13 percent. Later studies revealed that the all-metal implants were potentially failing at even higher rates. Subsequent research has indicated that metal-on-metal... Read More

A Louisiana resident filed a lawsuit against Stryker Corporation in May of 2012, claiming that she experienced complications after she was implanted with the Stryker hip replacement device. The lawsuit, which was originally filed in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, was... Read More

Plaintiff Arthur Boyne filed a lawsuit on June 29, 2012, against the Stryker Corporation in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (Ft. Myers Division). He believes that the defendant is liable for the debilitating pain and injuries he experienced after undergoing... Read More

Three lawsuits against DePuy Orthopaedics for their DePuy ASR hip implant were resolved in early August of 2012. Residents of Nevada, Annaliese Rundle, Martha Bender, and Katherine Guy, had filed their lawsuits in the Clark County District Court. Neither the individual plaintiffs nor their legal... Read More

On July 5, 2012, Stryker Orthopaedics announced a voluntary recall of the modular-neck hip stems of its Rejuvenate Modular and ABG II hip implants, citing “the potential for fretting and/or corrosion at or about the modular-neck junction, which may result in adverse local tissue reactions... Read More