An MDL (multidistrict litigation) was established for the prosecution of individual personal injury lawsuits against Biomet in the fall of 2012. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) heard attorney arguments on September 20, 2012, at a hearing in New York City. The plaintiffs requested consolidation of the pending lawsuits […]

Hip arthroplasty devices have been available in the U.S. for over 50 years with a variety of outcomes. An artificial hip medical device may be used to restore function of the joint, relieve pain or cure a disease or condition not responsive to a more conservative therapy. In May 2011, […]

On July 4, 2012, Stryker posted on its website a national recall of its Rejuvenate and ADM hip implant systems. It’s obvious that Stryker has received far too many reports of shockingly premature failures of its hip implant. The Rejuvenate has only been on the market since 2009 so enough […]

For the past few years orthopedic device manufacturers have come under intense scrutiny for selling hip implant devices that fail prematurely. These failures have been due to designing systems that include too many metal parts. It has been determined that when metal touches metal in an implant designed to carry […]

(It Doesn’t Really Matter As Long As Patients and Surgeons Stop Buying the Defective Implants!) While it would certainly be nice to have a government that moved swiftly to recall defective drugs and medical devices from the market, we do not live in that world – at least in the […]

The Searcy Denney Mass Tort Unit would like to thank our client, Howard Sadwin of Sarasota, Florida, for his poignant statements today before the Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee for the Food and Drug Administration. The hearings were convened in Gaithersburg, Maryland.  In addition […]

So far this week, our firm has filed three new DePuy ASR hip implant cases in the MDL proceedings pending before Judge David A. Katz of the United States District Court in the Northern District of Ohio. These multi-district litigation proceedings related to DePuy’s recalled ASR hip implants are also […]

This is the typical refrain from so many of our clients who were implanted with defective metal-on-metal hip implants made by orthopedic giants like DePuy, Stryker, Wright Medical, and Zimmer. The irony is that those who utter those words are actually very close to the emerging stereotype for these clients. […]

Building the “better mouse trap” sometimes means producing a product that simply does not work the way it is designed to work. It is a process, sometimes, of trial and error. If someone (other than the mouse) is seriously injured by that product, it is called negligence. Building the “better […]

In the three years since Stryker first introduced the Rejuvenate and ABG II modular hip implant systems, thousands of patients have had these devices implanted. The devices were distributed by Stryker throughout the United States. The promises made about the Rejuvenate seem to have all been false. Since the device […]