For patients who believe that they have been harmed by the Biomet Magnum hip replacement system and hope to participate in the settlement negotiated earlier this year, time is running out to file a lawsuit against the manufacturer by the deadline.  Plaintiffs must file a... Read More

Government health regulators report that medical device recalls have nearly doubled over the last ten years. As detailed in a report from the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), from fiscal year 2002 through 2012, recalls have increased some 97 percent for medical... Read More

A Canadian court has certified a hip replacement class action lawsuit against Wright Medical Technology, Inc., manufacturer of the Wright Profemur device. The case adds to the many lawsuits the company faces in the United States charging that failures of the artificial hip required surgery... Read More

A new study by researchers in Finland may put to rest worries over metal-on-metal hip implants and a higher overall risk of cancer, at least in the short term. However, scientists warned that risk for other types of Zimmer hip complications is still a concern.... Read More

Stryker hip settlements have been reached in eight of the nine Stryker Rejuvenate hip lawsuits involved in a court-ordered mediation process under the jurisdiction of the Superior Court of New Jersey for Bergen County. Close to 1500 Stryker Rejuvenate recall lawsuits have been filed across... Read More

A plaintiff who filed a DePuy hip injury lawsuit in California has had his case expedited due to unforeseeable and tragic circumstances. Gary Darling filed a complaint against DePuy after experiencing severe complications with his ASR hip implant in 2010. Since that time, Darling has... Read More

Another Stryker Rejuvenate settlement has been reached in front of the bellwether trials slated to begin later this year. While the details of the agreement were not made public, it is the fifth settlement reached of the original ten hip replacement cases ordered to go through... Read More

Biomet has indicated it will settle lawsuits pending in multidistrict litigation regarding its embattled M2a Magnum hip replacements. The complaints, totaling more than 800, allege that the implants are defectively designed, causing premature device failure, metal contamination and other severe complications. Reuters reports that the... Read More