Findings from two recent JAMA Internal Medicine studies may reveal some of the causes behind hip replacement problems and similar issues with other medical implants. Researchers discovered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration doesn’t always complete proper due diligence on medical devices. Each year, millions of patients receive medical implants,... Read more »

Many of the plaintiffs who have filed lawsuits against Biomet with regard to allegedly defective hip implant devices are looking forward to the resolution of their cases. A Biomet hip settlement is reportedly in the works for plaintiffs who were forced to undergo revision surgery after suffering from complications following... Read more »

The U.S. District Judge overseeing federal Pinnacle hip litigation has denied DePuy’s motions to have two key lawsuits dismissed. The complaints, filed by Kathleen Herlihy-Paoli and Toni M. Lay, are slated to go before a jury on September 1, as the first in a series of bellwether trials. The honorable... Read more »

Plaintiffs who have been waiting for litigation to progress in the DePuy ASR hip MDL will begin to see settlement payments very soon. Last fall, the manufacturer of the ASR hip system agreed to a DePuy hip settlement that was estimated to pay out more than $2 billion to 8,000... 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 »

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently announced final revisions to the guidelines for its updated medical identification database and tracking system. The final phase of the FDA’s Global Unique Device Identification Database (GUDID) was released on June 11 and provides updates for a draft of the regulatory... Read more »

The ongoing litigation involving Stryker hip replacements expanded significantly late last month as five new lawsuits were filed in New Jersey state court. The plaintiffs are asserting that Stryker failed to warn patients that a certain coating applied to the outside of the device could lead to severe metal toxicity in... Read more »

A DePuy hip settlement first announced in November 2013 is moving forward with the full expectation that pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson will ultimately pay out billions of dollars to resolve lawsuits over its subsidiary DePuy’s ASR implants. Until last month’s settlement alert announcing DePuy will not exercise its right... Read more »

Court records show that last month five new product liability complaints were filed in Bergen County Superior Court, alleging complications with the Stryker Accolade TMZF hip stem and LFIT anatomic V40 femoral head. The plaintiffs argue that the hip replacement components suffer design defects and are defectively manufactured, causing fretting... Read more »

The manufacturers of a replacement hip that has been the subject of thousands of lawsuits can add one more case, a Pinnacle hip revision surgery lawsuit, to defend. On February 26, 2014, a husband and wife from West Virginia, filed a complaint in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County,... Read more »