Recently, over twenty product liability and personal injury lawsuits have been filed against Zimmer-Biomet, Inc. Injured plaintiffs allege serious complications from the M/L Taper with Kinectiv technology when used with a Zimmer VerSys femoral head. As with other metal on metal hip designs, these folks…
California Smith & Nephew Birmingham Hip Resurfacing Lawsuit. A personal injury and defective product liability lawsuit was recently filed against Smith & Nephew, blaming the metal Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR) system for premature implant failure. The lawsuit also alleges dangerous metal blood poisoning and the development…
Bard hit for $4M in first IVC Filter Injury Trial. Last week an Arizona federal jury awarded Sherr-Una Booker $2 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages in the first bellwether C.R. Bard IVC filter lawsuit to go to trial. Bard was…
Smith and Nephew BHR Hip Injury claims moving forward. The Smith and Nephew orthopedic company is under fire over its line of Birmingham hip resurfacing hip implants. The major defense roadblock was the immunity shield the company threw up, claiming that their hip devices were…
Knee Implant Patients Furious at DePuy Attune Failures. We are fielding many inquiries from knee implant patients who have been injured by the best selling knee implant device made by Johnson and Johnson and its unit DePuy Orthopaedics. Many of them are furious at having…
First Bard IVC Filter Bellwether Trial set for March. As injured IVC filter plaintiffs wait for their day in court, the first Bard IVC filter bellwether trial is off to the races on March 14 in Phoenix, Arizona. The over 3,500 plaintiffs consolidated in the…
Why do Smith Nephew Birmingham Hips fail? As the U.S. population ages, hip joint deterioration from a variety of causes has become more common-place. Hip joint deterioration leads to pain, stiffness, and difficulty walking. Since these symptoms are progressive, patients are advised to undergo metal…
DePuy Hip Pinnacle Metal-on-Metal Hip Lawsuits Continue. At last count, there are over 10,000 filed DePuy Hip Pinnacle Metal-on-Metal hip replacement lawsuits, centralized in Dallas, Texas. The lawsuits are centered around the metal-on-metal version of DePuy Orthopaedics’ Pinnacle Ultamet hip replacement system. The hip replacement…
Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics subsidiary, the world’s second-largest manufacturer of artificial knee implants are exposed to personal injury and product liability lawsuits over claims involving design problems with the Attune knee replacement device. According to Robert Long from Kentucky, his Attune knee…
Australia bans Vaginal Mesh products as ‘too risky’ according to a report in the Guardian newspaper. Transvaginal mesh medical products used by surgeons to treat pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence have been banned by Australia’s government medical devices regulator. The Therapeutic Goods Administration…