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A new metal hip replacement lawsuit has been filed against Stryker over its metal-on-metal hip joints.
In her hip replacement complications lawsuit, plaintiff Teresa Fagan said she received the hip implant on April 2, 2010. The surgery completely replaced her left hip joint with the Stryker artificial hip. However, after the procedure, Fagan began to experience pain and had trouble walking. According to her Stryker hip lawsuit, it was discovered that the joint had loosened. This required surgery to correct the problem in April 2013.
Her Stryker lawsuit echoes similar hip implant complications lawsuits already filed over the Stryker hip joint. Stryker and several other companies manufactured a metal-on-metal hip joints. It has been alleged in thousands of hip replacement lawsuits that metal-on-metal hip joints are more likely to cause complications than other types of hip joints, such as ceramic or polymer joints. It has also been alleged that the metal grinding on metal causes tiny pieces of the implant to flake off into the body, where they can cause metal toxicity reactions and a host of related problems, including heart problems and growths around the joint called pseudo-tumors. The hip implant lawsuits have alleged that the manufacturers were aware — or reasonably should have been aware — of these risks, but marketed the joints anyway.
The various hip replacement lawsuits over Stryker metal-on-metal hip joints have been combined into a sort of group lawsuit called a multidistrict litigation, or MDL. MDLs are similar to class action lawsuits. In both MDLs and class action lawsuits, a group of plaintiffs allege they have suffered similar harm at the hands of the same defendant. Group lawsuits like class action lawsuits and MDLs are designed to streamline the legal process by combining many individual cases into a single legal procedure. The main difference between MDLs and class action lawsuits is that class action lawsuits start out as group lawsuits, while MDLs start out as individual suits that are later combined into a single proceeding.
The Stryker Hip Implant Lawsuit is Teresa Fagan v. Howmedica Osteonics Corporation, d/b/a Stryker Orthopaedics, filed within the MDL In re: Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2441, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.
In general, metal hip implant lawsuits are filed individually by each plaintiff and are not class actions.
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