Medical Devices & Implants

• Most DePuy ASR Lawsuits Must Be Filed Before August 2012

  Joe Saunders | May 18, 2012 4:57 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL

  DePuy ASR hip implant patients in most states who do not file lawsuits before August 23, 2012 may lose their rights to compensation or to file a lawsuit. Every state has a law called the...

• UK Tells Surgeons: Stop Using Stryker/ J&J Metal Hips

  Cal Warriner | April 06, 2012 1:26 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Hip replacement patients and their surgeons in the U.S. need to be made aware of a government warning out of the U.K. about a metal-on-metal hip (MoM) replacement combination with a high failure...

• FDA Revamps Metal-on-Metal Hip Implant Recommendations

  Brenda Fulmer | April 05, 2012 9:47 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  The FDA has issued some new guidelines for patients and orthopedic surgeons who are contemplating or have been implanted with metal-on-metal (“MoM”) hip implants. This information is...

• DePuy Unloads ASR Hip Implant Inventory After Problems Were Known

  Joe Saunders | March 22, 2012 11:05 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL

  In 2009 after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration raised questions about the safety of the DePuy ASR Hip Implants Johnson & Johnson decided to sell all the hip implants in its inventories...

• Electronic Cigarette Explodes in Man’s Mouth

  Council Wooten | February 27, 2012 9:02 AM | 5 CommentsOrlando, FL

  An exploding “electronic cigarette” severely injured a Florida man recently when it blew up in his mouth, according to sources. Electronic cigarettes are tobacco-free devices designed...

• Wright Medical Modular Neck Fracture Hip Implant Lawsuit Filed

  Joe Saunders | February 22, 2012 5:10 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL

  Today Saunders & Walker participated in the filing of a lawsuit in Phoenix Arizona involving the Wright ProFemur Total Hip System. This is a different type of hip implant lawsuit than most in...

• Pelvic Mesh Implant Lawsuits Move Forward in Courts

  Joe Saunders | February 08, 2012 9:28 PM | 2 CommentsPinellas, FL

  Products liability lawsuits against three different manufacturers of transvaginal surgical mesh devices were assigned to a single federal judge in a multidistrict litigation proceeding this...

• Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuits Move Forward

  Joe Saunders | January 29, 2012 10:55 AM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  Thousands of women who have had surgical mesh implanted to treat pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence are suffering from serious complications that are very difficult or...

• Metal on Metal Hip Implant Lawsuits Include Biomet

  Joe Saunders | December 18, 2011 10:09 PM | 1 CommentSarasota, FL

  The wave of metal on metal hip implant lawsuits that have been filed now includes the Biomet Magnum hip replacement device. Legal cases that have been filed over the last few years have been...

• Update on DePuy Hip Implant Lawsuits

  Joe Saunders | November 06, 2011 12:37 PM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL

  More lawsuits are being filed every week against DePuy and Johnson & Johnson for hip implant failures relating to the DePuy ASR and the DePuy Pinnacle Ultamet metal on metal hip implants. In...