Revision of Single Type of Large Metal Head in Metal Hip Replacements
Revision of a Single Type of Large Metal Head Metal-on-Metal Hip Replacement Abstract Large-head metal-on-metal (MoM) total hip arthroplasties were introduced because of their purported advantages....
View ArticleMRI & MARS Imaging Likely Best to Find Pseudotumors-Biomet Metal Hips
High Incidence of Pseudotumors After Hip Resurfacing Even in Low-Risk Patients; Results From Intensified MRI Screening Protocol Abstract A Metal-on-Metal hip pseudotumor is a mass of tissue that can...
View ArticleZimmer Biomet Admits High MoM Hip Failure Rate for M2a 38mm Implants
(Washington, D.C. – May 2, 2016) Zimmer Biomet is warning European surgeons about problems with the M2a 38mm metal on metal hip implants but has NOT issued any warnings in the United States for...
View ArticleJudge Says Sales Rep Can Be Held Liable in State Court
(August 3, 2017) A Federal Judge says a Missouri man injured by a defective M2a Magnum hip replacement can sue a sales representative who was present at his surgery. The judge removed the case from an...
View ArticleBiomet Pays $17.4 Million Criminal Penalty for Corruption
(January 12, 2017) Zimmer Biomet agreed to pay a $17.4 million criminal penalty in connection with a scheme to bribe South American, Mexican and Chinese doctors to use the company’s products. According...
View ArticleBoeing Sues Biomet Over Defective M2a Magnum Hip
(August 1, 2017) Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company, and leading jetliner manufacturer sued Zimmer Biomet over the defective M2a Magnum hip implant. Boeing says one of its employees suffered...
View ArticleRadio Interview about Metal on Metal Hip Problems
Nationally recognized medical journalist, Heidi Godman, invited Attorney Ilyas Sayeg on her radio show to discuss problems with metal on metal hip implants. Mr. Sayeg explains what’s going wrong with...
View ArticleTicking Time-Bombs Implanted in the Hips of Thousands of WA Patients
(Seattle, WA – November 28, 2017) – Three patients suffering heavy metal poisoning from a metal-on-metal hip replacement filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Seattle against Biomet Orthopaedics. The three...
View Article10/12/12 – Biomet Hip MDL is Created
In October of 2012, a federal judicial panel consolidated lawsuits across the United States involving the Biomet M2a Magnum hip replacements into one federal court. This move created Multi-District...
View Article4/18/13 Biomet Hip MDL Plaintiffs Face Limits in Electronic Discovery
During the “discovery” phase of a case, the patients suing Biomet are allowed to request documents and depositions (interviews) from Biomet in order to “discover” evidence for their eventual trial....
View Article1/31/14 – Biomet Announces $56 Million Settlement for M2a Hips
The threat of a trial is typically a very strong bargaining chip to help sides reach a settlement in a case. For plaintiffs, the bargaining chip is that a trial will ensure that bad behavior of the...
View Article7/14 – Mctlaw Scores A Critical Victory For Biomet M2a Hip Plaintiffs
In the American court system, federal and state courts operate completely independently of each other. Biomet’s victories up until this point all occurred in the Multi-District Litigation (MDL),...
View Article11/15 Biomet Forced to Produce Documents On Old Version of M2a Magnum
As mctlaw turned up the heat on Biomet requesting documents related to their M2a metal on metal hips, Biomet fought back by adopting a “scorched earth” strategy of multiple objections to every single...
View ArticleAttorneys Ready for First US Trial Against Biomet Over M2a Hips
(Sarasota, FL – March 20, 2018) The first Biomet M2a metal on metal hip replacement trial in the United States is set for September 2018 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. It is a significant legal challenge...
View Article4/16 Court Forces Biomet to Produce Audio/Video Files in M2a Lawsuit
Upset that Biomet has seemingly sat on its hands for nearly a year, the court forced Biomet to produce to our clients all audio and video files responsive to the request. The court also warns Biomet to...
View Article06/17 Biomet Forced to Produce Documents with Electronic Search
In extensive arguments with Biomet, mctlaw convinced the court that Biomet’s search protocols for the MDL documents were so poor that they resulted in the production of a large number of useless and...
View Article1/11/18 – mctlaw Forces Biomet to Produce Internal Sales Training
Losing patience with Biomet, the Court forces Biomet to produce its internal communications with its sales representatives and to explain what efforts it actually took to find the requested...
View Article1/31/18 Documents Find Bad Quality Control at M2a Production Plant
Mctlaw and its partner Nash & Franciskato are the ONLY law firms in the country to demand and get access to internal Biomet documents showing dangerous quality control issues at the plant where...
View Article2/21/18 Biomet Leaders Forced into Depositions with mctlaw Attorneys
Mctlaw is the only law firm in the country allowed to question Biomet representatives under oath about the connection between alleged unethical business practices and their M2a metal on metal hip...
View ArticleHeavy Metal Poisoning from Biomet Metal Hip Destroys Patient’s Pelvis
(San Francisco, CA – April 26, 2018) A team of attorneys led by mctlaw has filed a lawsuit in San Francisco, CA against Biomet Orthopedics on behalf of a patient who suffered horrific injuries from a...
View ArticleFL Biomet Hip Lawsuit: Metal Poisoning, Loopholes, etc.
(Ft. Lauderdale, FL – May 3, 2018) Mctlaw files yet another lawsuit against Biomet Orthopedics on behalf of 3 Florida patients who all had to undergo traumatic hip revision surgery because of their...
View Article6/13/18 Punitive Damages Allowed-Biomet Knew of Metal Hip Flaws
A Florida judge allows the attorneys at mctlaw to go after punitive damages against Zimmer Biomet as part of three Florida residents’ lawsuits in Fort Lauderdale. Punitive damages are a type of...
View ArticleCA Lawsuit Claims Biomet Misleading with False Info
(Sacramento, CA – November 23, 2018) Three California residents filed a lawsuit in Sacramento County Court against Biomet Orthopaedics. The suit says that Biomet sold defective Magnum metal on metal...
View ArticleNBC Biomet Report Features Patient Represented by mctlaw
NBC News investigative reporters sat down with Andrew Chappell to speak about his Biomet M2a hip replacement nightmare. Reporters wonder why seven nations, including Australia and Germany, knew about...
View ArticleDemand the FDA Recalls the Biomet M2a Magnum
Mctlaw created a petition demanding the FDA recall these defective metal-on-metal hip replacements. Please consider signing below, and sharing with friends and family. mctlaw Petition Please click...
View ArticleBiomet (ZBH) Facing 19 Trials On Metal on Metal Hips
Sarasota, FL — (December 17, 2019) Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:ZBH) (SWX:ZBH) is facing almost 20 jury trials across the country between 2020 through 2021. The barrage of trials begins May 2020...
View ArticleWhat is the Status of the Biomet Hip Litigation?
mctlaw Attorney Michael Cowgill explains the status of the Zimmer Biomet Litigation. To date, Zimmer Biomet is the only metal-on-metal hip manufacturer that has yet to face a jury in trial. “We’re...
View ArticleBiomet Reports Show Rising Litigation Liabilities for Metal Hips
JANUARY 17, 2020 (Sarasota, FL) — Zimmer Biomet Holdings’ (ZBH) most recent quarterly financial report puts the litigation liability for the M2a-Magnum hip at $65.7-million. Since May 2018, the...
View ArticleJudge Orders Biomet Internal Documents to go Public
Internal documents about metal on metal hips that Zimmer Biomet (ZBH) fought hard to keep secret are now public, and some of the contents are troubling. Recently, a judge ruled in favor of mctlaw...
View ArticleJury Awards $20 Million Verdict to Victim of Defective Metal on Metal Hip...
A St. Louis jury sent a $20 million dollar message to Biomet Orthopedics in Federal Court today. The verdict sided clearly in favor of Mary Bayes, who suffered extensive heavy metal poisoning and 6...
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