An Ohio woman has filed a M2a hip system lawsuit against the makers of her hip replacement device, claiming that the medical device is defective and has caused her pain and suffering.

Plaintiff Rickey L. has filed this M2a hip system lawsuit against Biomet Inc., the makers of the Biomet M2 Magnum Metal-on-Metal hip system. She was implanted with this device in both her left and right hips.

According to her M2a hip system lawsuit, “The M2a hip system is defective and causes excess amounts of cobalt and chromium to corrode and wear from the surfaces of the device, which in turn causes the hip implant to fail and the surrounding tissue and bone to die.”

Rickey also claims that as a result of these defects, the M2a hip system caused toxic levels of dangerous metals including chromium and cobalt to increase in her body. This caused the destruction of bone and tissue and resulted in risky explantation procedures and revision surgery.

M2a Hip Replacement Issues

On Dec. 11, 2009, Rickey says she underwent a total right hip replacement receiving Biomet’s M2a hip system. About five months later, in April 2010, she underwent the same surgery, but this time on her left hip. Both surgeries included the M2a hip system, she claims.

She claims that Biomet knew about the defective nature of the M2a hip system before 2009 and 2010, the dates she underwent her surgeries. According to her M2a hip system lawsuit, Biomet “knew that the M2a hip system was defective and harmful to consumers and it had an unacceptable failure and complication rate.”

Additionally, she believes that Biomet had a legal and moral obligation to patients and the medical community to refrain from selling the M2a hip system any longer and to inform doctors of the risks of the M2a hip system.

These risks include the propensity of the M2a hip system’s acetabular cup to “detach, disconnect or loosen from the acetabulum, and for some patients to develop adverse reactions to high levels of metal debris generated by normal use of the M2a hip system.”

Rickey alleges that she suffered from extreme pain in both of her hips that had been replaced with the M2a hip system. She later learned that as a result of this defective medical device, dangerous metal ions were being released into her body and that the M2a hip system devices were both at risk of failure.

In 2017 and 2018 respectively, Rickey underwent revision surgery on both her hips. She claims that because Biomet was negligent, she has suffered and will continue to suffer injury because of her M2a hip system hip replacement devices.These injuries include physical suffering as well as mental and emotional suffering.

According to her M2a hip system lawsuit, she has incurred medical expenses, loss of income, loss of earning capacity and, she claims, will continue to incur the need for medical treatment in the future.

Rickey’s M2a Hip System Lawsuit is Case No. 0:18-cv-01896-DWF-DTS in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.