Virtually all Rejuvenate and ABG II patients have received notice from their doctor that the devices have been recalled. These patients are all now faced with the prospect of a painful and risky revision surgery. Rejuvenate and ABG II victims can basically be placed into three categories. I know. I’ve […]

Last month, Searcy Denney filed a lawsuit on behalf of a North Port hip implant and his wife against DePuy Orthopedics and Johnson & Johnson.  This Southwest Florida resident was originally implanted with a DePuy ASR metal-on-metal hip implant by Dr. Howard Saslow at Fawcett Memorial Hospital in Port Charlotte, […]

  Another DePuy ASR hip implant lawsuit was filed this week against DePuy Orthopaedics and its parent company, Johnson & Johnson.  This lawsuit was filed on behalf of a 61 year old woman who lives on a farm near Gainesville, Florida.  She had the misfortune of being implanted with not […]

The Searcy Denney Mass Tort Unit filed yet another individual lawsuit this week on behalf of a Florida DePuy ASR hip implant victim. This claim was filed on behalf of a Sebring resident who was implanted with bilateral recalled DePuy ASR implants in 2007 at Highlands Regional Medical Center. This plaintiff […]

Johnson & Johnson knew about at least some of the serious problems related to their DePuy ASR hip implant, known as metal-on-metal (MOM) implants,  before they ever started alerting consumers and it appears they may have known about it even before they asked the FDA to approve the device through […]

Pradaxa (also known as Dabigatran Etexilate) is an inactive “parent” drug that relies on the body’s metabolism to eventually manufacture a form of the drug that the body can use as an anti-coagulant, a process that occurs after the drug has been ingested by a patient. Anti-coagulants such as Warfarin […]

The recent news about the Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) actions in connection with hip implant manufacturers demands the question: why wasn’t the action being ordered required before the hip implants were placed on the market? The answer is that the FDA’s order to 20 device makers to study the […]

Bloomberg has an interesting article today discussing medical device approval and where the fault lies for bad devices being approved for use. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) “approves” medical devices and often (some say too often) grants review and approval under Section 510(k) of the Food, Drug & Cosmetic […]

In response to scrutiny from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Exactech has recalled hundreds of thousands of defective medical implant devices sold between 2004 and 2021. Despite these recalls—which began in 2021—the FDA sent a Warning Letter to Exactech on March 12, 2024 informing the company that its […]

Exactech has issued multiple recalls for its implantable joint replacement devices over the past few years. While Exactech has largely issued these recalls voluntarily, it has done so at the request—and with the oversight—of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA is the federal agency responsible for ensuring […]