Stryker Hip Lawsuit 2016

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Stryker hip lawsuit 2016.

Stryker agreed to a confidential settlement of lawsuits over its lfit v40 femoral head in 2018. Severe pain loss of mobility joint. Subsidiary howmedica osteonics corp. State based stryker lawsuits consolidated in new jersey the new jersey supreme court recently approved consolidation of all pending and future state based hip replacement implant failure lawsuits brought against stryker corp.

Stryker s products have continued to pose dangers to orthopaedic patients. The medical device products involved are the lfit anatomic cobalt chromium cocr v40 femoral heads. Patients also experienced complications of the device including. The cause of the malfunction was still under investigation when the public notice was posted on nov.

In august of 2016 stryker corp recalled more than 42 000 of its lfit v40 metal femoral head hip implant components. The company notified surgeons and health care facilities that the implants had a higher than expected rate of revision surgery due to a problem known as taper lock failure. In august of 2016 stryker a manufacturer of various orthopedic medical products including hip prostheses implants used during hip replacement surgery voluntarily recalled their stryker lfit anatomic cocr v40 femoral head components. Stryker expanded the list in may 2018.

The fda issued a class ii recall of the lfit anatomic cocr v40 femoral heads on aug. 9 2016 according to the fda. As of august 2019 there were nearly 2 000 stryker hip replacement lawsuits in state and federal courts. Within a multicounty legislation.

Stryker hip replacement v40 femoral head recall. The company paid 2 billion in 2014 to settle rejuvenate and abg ii hip lawsuits.