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…
On June 19th, 2017 the United States Supreme Court fundamentally changed the rules governing where corporate defendants can be sued and reshaped the definition of jurisdiction. In Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court, No. 16-466, the Supreme Court found that California courts could hear…
On August 19, 2016, Stryker Orthopedics issued a recall letter concerning the LFIT V40 femoral head noting that the company had received a higher than normal number of product failures. Since the medical device was manufactured between 2001 and 2011, none of the devices were…
When Houston firefighter Jeffrey Pavlock entered the hospital for surgery, his surgeon had determined that he would need to use Cook Celect IVC filter in order to prevent blood clots from reaching the patient’s heart and lungs. The IVC filter was temporary and was…
In April the Food and Drug Administration announced new restrictions that would compel Bayer to restrict sales of its Essure birth control implant to medical practices, and those practices would be required to fully inform women about the device’s risks. Doctors must review with patients…
A Phoenix, Arizona jury today found that C.R. Bard, a manufacturer of IVC blood filters should pay $3.6 million to plaintiff Sherri Booker who was 37 years old when a Bard G2 blood filter was implanted. Her blood filter which was intended to prevent…
