{"id":857,"date":"2015-01-16T16:25:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T16:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/?p=857"},"modified":"2015-01-16T20:21:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T20:21:20","slug":"hip-implant-manufacturer-settles-product-liability-lawsuit-for-roughly-900-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/hip-implant-manufacturer-settles-product-liability-lawsuit-for-roughly-900-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip Implant Manufacturer Settles Product Liability Lawsuit for Roughly $900 Million."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We are a Boston personal injury law firm, which is comprised of highly-qualified injury attorney experts.\u00a0 Our record of excellent client service speaks for itself.\u00a0 We have an exceptional reputation for achieving outstanding outcomes for our injured clients and recovering millions of dollars in damages.\u00a0\u00a0 Have you or your loved one suffered injuries due to a defective product? If so, our <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-defective-product-injury-lawyers-attorneys.php\">Massachusetts product liability lawyers<\/a> will work tirelessly on your case to ensure that you and your family obtain fair compensation for your pain and suffering, medical expenses, lost wages and other expenses and damages. Dealing with the physical and emotional injuries can be difficult enough.\u00a0 Let us help to keep you financially whole.\u00a0 Call 617-787-3700, 24\/7, or email <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-contact-gilbert-hoy-lawyers-attorneys.php\">info@gilhoylaw.com<\/a> for your free and confidential consultation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vzResghV3g0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Like a car, our bodies are not designed to last forever.\u00a0 Eventually, we have no other choice but to \u201crepair\u201d or \u201creplace\u201d parts of our body that no longer function properly.\u00a0 Medical technology, thankfully, has made incredible strides in the past several decades.\u00a0 <strong>With several exceptions, we can now replace a malfunctioning joint or organ with surgery.<\/strong>\u00a0 The implications for the distant future are bright indeed.\u00a0 We are now pioneering our way into a new age of biomedicine.<\/p>\n<p>But there are also pitfalls in this new area of medicine.\u00a0 Many of the materials that we use to create new implants, and other similar devices, are subject to human error.\u00a0 Manufacturing them, in other words, can present new problems.\u00a0<strong> If the implants are not designed to be safe in the human body, there can be severe negative consequences.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"  http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/stryker-settles-hip-implant-product-liability-lawsuits-1415056186\">Stryker Corporation, an American medical technology company<\/a>, has recently come under fire for the failure of its Rejuvenate hip implants.\u00a0 <strong>According to the allegations in a class action lawsuit filed by patients with the implant, the devices were reportedly corroding and causing inflammation in tissue in and around the implant.\u00a0<\/strong> In 2012, Stryker made the decision to recall all of its implants in order to prevent any further backlash.\u00a0 Unfortunately, by that time, thousands of Americans had already suffered injuries due to their defective hip implants.<\/p>\n<p>Stryker has recently agreed to a settlement to pay $300,000 to each of the plaintiffs for each hip implant that required a revision surgery.\u00a0 The settlement is estimated to include roughly 3,000 patients, which would mean that <strong>Stryker would stand to lose nearly $900 million from the lawsuit.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cWe estimate that it will cover about 3,000 patients whose devices have already failed,\u201d\u00a0Ellen Relkin, a plaintiffs attorney in the\u00a0New Jersey\u00a0case, said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>The damage caused by a defective product can be serious and long lasting.\u00a0 If you or a loved one have endured this kind of pain and anguish, your suffering must be brought to an end.\u00a0 With an experienced personal injury attorney at your side, you may be able to find the financial security that was robbed of you at the time of the accident.\u00a0 <strong>Please call 617-787-3700 to tell us about your potential claim today.\u00a0 Your needs are our top priority!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a Boston personal injury law firm, which is comprised of highly-qualified injury attorney experts.\u00a0 Our record of excellent client service speaks for itself.\u00a0 We have an exceptional reputation for achieving outstanding outcomes for our injured clients and recovering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/hip-implant-manufacturer-settles-product-liability-lawsuit-for-roughly-900-million\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,4,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}