In a decision that greatly impacts Stryker and its subsidiary Howmedica Osteonics for years to come, a federal judge ruled on April 17, 2015 that plaintiffs who underwent revision surgery after filing a Stryker hip lawsuit can now file a Notice of Revision Surgery that will amend the plaintiff’s prior pleadings in... Read more »

The 74 year-old Irish medical device company, Stryker Orthopaedics, has been hit with a Rejuvenate hip lawsuit by Mr. John Dabney, a resident of Jefferson County, Alabama, and his wife, Ms. Judith Dabney. The Dabney’s suit, filed January 5, 2015, has been consolidated in MDL (multidistrict litigation) 2441 entitled In... Read more »

After a proactive Superior Court Judge in Bergen County, New Jersey ordered opposing attorneys in the ongoing Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II modular hip systems product liability litigation to submit to a mediation program in an attempt to resolve some of the many Stryker hip lawsuits before going to trial, the... Read more »

Bayer is opposing a request by plaintiffs in nine Mirena IIH lawsuits to establish a new federal multidistrict litigation (MDL), which would centralize all IIH complaints in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. The plaintiffs, who filed the motion with the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict... Read more »

With 2,000 Mirena IUD lawsuits pending across the country, plaintiffs are anxiously awaiting their day in court against Bayer Healthcare. Some sixteen cases have been given the green light for early trial dates. These so-called bellwether trials, chosen from 800 cases pending in New Jersey state court, will help gauge how juries... Read more »