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Zimmer M/L Taper Hip With Kinectiv and VerSys head Lawsuit

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 fo

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 18 Jul 2018

California Smith & Nephew Birmingham Hip Resurfacing Lawsuit

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 p

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 11 Jul 2018

Bard hit for $4M in first IVC Filter Injury Trial

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…

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 2 Apr 2018

Smith and Nephew BHR Hip Injury claims moving forward

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…

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 27 Mar 2018

Knee Implant Patients Furious at DePuy Attune Failures

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…

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 7 Mar 2018

First Bard IVC Filter Bellwether Trial set for March

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…

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 20 Feb 2018

Why do Smith Nephew Birmingham Hips fail?

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…

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 16 Feb 2018

Why do Smith Nephew Birmingham Hips fail?

DePuy Hip Pinnacle Metal-on-Metal Hip Lawsuits Continue

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 replac

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 15 Feb 2018

DePuy Attune Knee Failures

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 Kent

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 14 Feb 2018

Australia bans Vaginal Mesh products as ‘too risky’

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 Therapeuti

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 30 Nov 2017

J&J DePuy Pinnacle Metal Hip Verdict

Latest J&J DePuy Pinnacle Metal Hip Verdict. Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary DePuy have been whacked again in the latest Texas DePuy Pinnacle Hip Implant case to go to trial. The latest round of Johnson & Johnson DePuy Pinnacle hip failure bellwether trials had just finished…

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 16 Nov 2017

First Cook IVC Filter Injury Verdict for the Defense

First Cook IVC Filter Injury Verdict for the Defense. Recently a federal jury found for Cook Medical, the maker of Cook Celect, and Gunther Tulip IVC Filters, which are a popular brand of IVC (Inferior Vena Cava) filters. The jury found no liability in the…

By Shezad Malik MD JD

/ 14 Nov 2017

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