Plaintiffs Allan and Annette W. have initiated an LFIT V40 femoral head lawsuit against the Howmedica Osteonics Corp. The plaintiffs in the LFIT V40 femoral head lawsuit are adding their claim to the MDL product liability litigation, which has consolidated claims from numerous patients around the country with similar complaints.

The LFIT V40 femoral head lawsuit argues that this device is defective, but the patients don’t become aware of these issues until after they have been implanted with the device and suffered. The LFIT V40 femoral head lawsuit says that Allan was implanted with the device in November 2008 in Pennsylvania and received the Accolade TMZF stem.

The femoral head was explanted on Nov. 8th, 2017 in Pennsylvania as a result of significant problems, the couple claims. The plaintiffs allege loss of services and loss of consortium as a result of the defective LFIT V40 femoral head.

The LFIT V40 femoral head lawsuit says that the defendants proximately caused the injuries to the plaintiff and that the plaintiffs could not have known about the possibility of these injuries until after the device was recalled from the market and the plaintiffs became aware of the recall.

The LFIT V40 femoral head lawsuit is filed on numerous counts, including failure to warn, defective design, negligence, breach of expressed warranty, breach of implied warranties, wrongful death, unjust enrichment, loss of consortium, negligent misrepresentation and punitive damages.

The lawsuit says that the manufacturers did not go far enough in testing their associated LFIT V40 femoral head device or in notifying patients or the medical community about the possible risks. The lawsuit says that many patients have had to suffer as a result from receiving an implanted LFIT V40 femoral head that they expected to use for many years.

Other plaintiffs have similar allegations against the device manufacturer, claiming that not enough was done to warn the medical community about the possible problems until it was too late. These patients say they weren’t told up front about the possibility of severe side effects, and many had to go through the risks and side effects of revision surgery because of problems they could not have known about.

Some of the most common problems reported by patients who received the LFIT V40 femoral head include excessive metallic debris that can travel through a patient’s bloodstream, insufficient motion range with the device, hip stem fractures, disassociation of the femoral head from the hip stem, noise, debris breakdown, and loss of implant or bone fixation strength.

Doctors and patients assume that medical devices are safe and effective, but increasingly, companies making these items are being named in lawsuits over allegations that people are suffering from side effects that should have been named in a warning.

The various lawsuits regarding the LFIT V40 femoral head have been consolidated into one streamlined action to make it easier for the courts to handle these similar allegations against the device manufacturers.

The LFIT V40 Femoral Head Lawsuit is case 1:18-cv-12167-IT, filed in the US District Court, District of Massachusetts.