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As a medical device lawyer for more than 20 years, I have received so many calls from patients who are concerned that they have a recalled hip implant in their body. Often, their first notice of a potential problem with their hip replacement device is when they hear something on TV, often a lawyer advertisement,…
Over the past few years, various orthopedic surgeons around the country and their patients have been faced with a catastrophic failure of Stryker’s Accolade and V40 LFIT hip implants and incredible challenges for the patients. In June of 2014, orthopedic surgeons from New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts (Dr. Carl T. Talmo) and Hinsdale…
Landmark National Settlement Reached in Styker Hip Replacement Lawsuits In Unprecedented Agreement, Company must pay for Future Complications Attributable to Faulty Devices WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., November 4, 2014 – South Florida law firm Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A. (Searcy Denney) announced today that a national settlement has been reached on behalf of…
Virtually all Rejuvenate and ABG II patients have received notice from their doctor that the devices have been recalled. These patients are all now faced with the prospect of a painful and risky revision surgery. Rejuvenate and ABG II victims can basically be placed into three categories. I know. I’ve personally spoken with well over…
With mixed emotions, our office would like to report that we’ve just filed 71 Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II cases in New Jersey state court this week. Though this isn’t the first time we’ve filed a large number of lawsuits against a defendant like Stryker, the sheer amount of cases filed this week deserves some…
The purpose of multidistrict litigation is to consolidate complex legal cases that share a similar legal issues and common questions of fact. The product liability lawsuits filed naming Stryker over its Rejuvenate hip and the ABG II Hip Stem have been consolidated in federal court in Minnesota. The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation…
A recent article published in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery clearly shows that the Stryker Rejuvenate modular hip implant may be as capable of corroding as its metal-on-metal cousins. This publication is significant because it shows metal-on-metal (MoM) hips are not the only problem. Adverse events were reported with the components in this…
Johnson & Johnson can not dodge an $8.3 million jury award by having a new metal-on-metal hip trial. J&J”s DePuy Orthopaedics division petitioned a California court to have a new trial to offset a March jury award to the metal hip injured patient. Judge J. Stephen Czuleger rejected that motion letting stand the jury ruling…
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has requested that an $8.3 million judgment against the company over its DePuy metal-on-metal (MoM) hip implant be put on hold. The damaging jury award was rendered in March against J&J’s DePuy Orthopedics division on behalf of plaintiff, Loren Kransky. His metal hip shed cobalt and chromium debris into his implant…
On February 20, 2013 Judge Brian Martinotti held the first case management conference in Bergen County New Jersey. Approximately 50 lawyers attended the conference including counsel for Stryker. Several matters were on the agenda and after all in attendance announced their appearance for the record judge Martinotti issued several rulings that will jumpstart this litigation….
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