Former farm manager Andy Pollard used to have no problem navigating a tractor across acres of land. Today, his limbs are rigid, his body experiences uncontrollable spasms that stifle his mobility, and he has lost his clarity of speech. Mr. Pollard, who lives in the…
On June 14, a motion was filed to coordinate Exactech knee, ankle, and hip recall lawsuits into a federal multidistrict litigation in the Eastern District of New York. Multidistrict litigation is a special procedure in which federal civil (noncriminal) cases from around the country are…
Our firm filed the first Exactech hip implant lawsuit in June 2021 shortly before the recall notice to physicians. Two articles had been published in medical journals in 2020 reporting the failure of an unusually high number of Exactech Connexion GXL polyethylene hip liners. One…
Exactech, a medical device manufacturer that sells knee, hip and ankle implant devices has issued a series of recalls over the last year. Doctors and surgeons were notified of the problem with early failure of the implants in June 2021 but letters did not go…
The Exactech Hip Implant recall campaign has retained a company named Broadspire to coordinate payment of medical bills and other expenses for hip implant patients with failed Exactech hips and knees. The Exactech hip implants with GXL polyethylene liners have an unacceptably high rate of…
In June 2021, Exactech issued an urgent letter to orthopedic surgeons concerning the high failure rate of its GXL hip implant liners. There have been several articles in the medical literature questioning the early failures of the GXL hip implant liners. Exactech has also sent…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration and state and local health agencies have been investigating the origin of a rare, multistate tuberculosis outbreak. More than 100 patients may have been infected with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis during spinal surgery or fracture…
A DUI suspect is blamed for a double fatal accident near the Tachi Palace Casino Resort in Lemoore, California. The California Highway Patrol says the accident occurred late Friday night near the intersection of Jersey Avenue and 17th Avenue on July 1, 2022. KGPE-TV reports…
It was recently revealed that the FBI has opened an investigation into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans going back decades, on the grounds that the accused men could have violated a federal anti-sex trafficking law by crossing state lines. This…
Following a months-long shortage of infant formula caused in part by the shut-down of the Abbott Laboratories facility in Sturgis, Michigan, Abbott has now resumed operations at that facility. The hope is that this move will soon result in the shelves being restocked with the…
