December 8,2016, Update: You may still have time to file a Stryker hip lawsuit seeking a settlement payout for revision surgery, but you need to contact our Stryker Hip Lawsuit Team today.
In 2015 dozens of our clients obtained settlement payouts from Stryker Orthopaedics for revision surgery to remove and replace a failed Rejuvenate hip implant due to metallosis. The base payment was $300,000 per removed device, with amounts going up or down, depending on the facts of the specific case. These clients had had revision surgery before November 3, 2014.
Pritzker Hageman attorneys are representing dozens of people who have suffered serious injury from their Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II hip implants, including metallosis (metal poisoning from chromium and cobalt ions), tissue necrosis (tissue death), osteolysis and premature device failure requiring revision surgery to remove and replace the defective Stryker hip implant.
Lawsuits against Howmedica Osteonics Corporation, doing business as Stryker Orthopaedics, are pending in Minnesota and New Jersey. All of these lawsuits seek money damages for harm suffered when the Rejuvenate and ABG II hip products corroded, causing chromium and cobalt ions to leach into surrounding tissue, bone and blood.
“Many of our clients have had or are scheduled to have revision surgery to remove and replace the recalled Stryker hip implants,” said AttorneyFred Pritzker, whose product safety team recently won $45 million for clients injured by another medical product.
Over 300 Stryker hip lawsuits are pending in the U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota. These are cases filed in federal courts throughout the United States. The next scheduled proceeding for these cases is a Status Conference on November 21, 2013.
Over 400 Stryker hip lawsuits have been filed in New Jersey, the state where Stryker owner Howmedica has its main offices. Some of the patients involved in these cases are from Minnesota. Some of these cases are scheduled for mediation, a process where the two sides (attorneys for injured patients and Howmedica) explain their cases before a mediator, who tries to get them to settle. These first few mediations are to be held no later than December 15, 3013.
Rejuvenate and ABG II hip stems were part of a Stryker recall issued by Howmedica on July 6, 2012 due to the possibility of metallosis and product failure. Even patients who have not experienced pain, swelling or other problems with their implants, are at risk of future metallosis and need to be monitored. Stryker has acknowledged the problem and is recommending that all Rejuvenate and ABG II implant patients undergo periodic blood testing and cross sectional imaging. For this reason, Fred and his team are representing all patients who had Rejuvenate and ABG II products implanted.
Contact tour attorneys for a free consultation by calling 1-888-377-8900 (toll free) or submitting our free consultation form (click here now).
Many of our cases involve hip replacements performed at the following locations:
- St. Cloud Hospital (CentraCare Health System);
- Immanuel-St. Joseph’s in Mankato, MN (Mayo Clinic Health System);
- Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire, WI;
- New England Baptist Hospital in the Boston, MA area; and
- Newton-Wellesley in the Boston, MA area.
The lawsuits pending in New Jersey and Minnesota are not Stryker class action suits. They coordinate pretrial proceedings only, and each litigant (person injured by a Rejuvenate or ABG II product) is treated individually.