A Massachusetts man recently filed a hip implant lawsuit against Biomet, Inc., alleging that the company’s M2a Magnum metal on metal hip implant was defective and caused him severe complications and led to additional hip replacement surgery.

Plaintiff John W. underwent hip replacement surgery on his left hip in 2011, when he received a Biomet metal hip implant.

John claims in his metal hip implant lawsuit that he suffered severe pain and additional complications that forced him to undergo an additional hip revision surgery to replace the alleged defective Biomet hip.

Revision surgery leads to a higher risk of complications of hip replacement. For instance, studies conducted on this subject show that revision surgery leads to a higher risk of dislocation.

According to one study, 14.4 percent of revision surgery patients suffer from a dislocation, while only 3.9 of original hip replacement surgery patients suffer dislocation.

Not only did these complications of hip replacement surgery cause John immense pain, but also resulted in numerous unexpected medical expenses.

According to the Biomet lawsuit, the plaintiff’s hip implant and others like it are defective, and place their users at risk. The hip implant lawsuit alleges that Biomet was aware that the M2a Magnum device was defective prior to selling it to the plaintiff and other patients.

The lawsuit further claims that Biomet has received hundreds of adverse event reports associated with the M2a Magnum Hip System specifically.

John is seeking punitive damages in response to Biomet’s harmful actions and has directly filed his case in the pending federal multidistrict litigation against the hip implant manufacturer.

Biomet Metal Hip Implant Systems

Biomet’s M2a Magnum Hip System was developed in order to effectively reconstruct human hip joints. These joints may need implants because of a variety of conditions such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, avascular necrosis, and/or fracture.

While most hip implants have metal balls fixed on top of a femoral stem implanted on the femur and then placed inside plastic liner and an acetabular shell, the M2a Magnum Hip System’s design places the metal ball directly in contact with another metal piece, the metal acetabular shell.

According to Biomet lawsuits, this design was never approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as safe or effective, and many plaintiffs, like John, claim that the system was insufficiently tested by the defendants.

The M2a Magnum Hip System, as well as other Biomet hip implant systems, is critically important to Biomet sales. Instead of recalling the allegedly defective product, Biomet continued to market the hip implant system as safe and effective to maintain sales.

Filing a Lawsuit After Hip Replacement Surgery

If you have received a Biomet M2a Magnum implant during a total hip replacement surgery and are experiencing severe pain, you may have a defective hip implant.

Filing a hip implant lawsuit, given that metal on metal hip replacement surgeries have been linked to some serious and painful complications, may offer relief in obtaining compensation for medical bills and pain after hip replacement surgery.

If you or someone you know has experienced complications of hip replacement due to a hip replacement surgery, you may be able to file a defective hip implant lawsuit.

The Biomet Metal Hip Implant Lawsuit is Case No. 3:16-cv-00115-RLM-CAN, filed within In Re: Biomet M2a Magnum Hip Implant Product Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2391 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.