Articles Posted in Artificial Hip

After more than twenty-one years at Harris Sarratt & Hodges, LLP, I made the move to start my own law firm: Hodges Law, PLLC. I had a great run at HSH, and I learned so much about practicing law from my law partners and from staff, but it was time for this new challenge. I…

A former client was kind enough to write a summary of my handling of his defective hip case. I am grateful to this client for taking the time to write, and I have reproduced it below: My experience with Attorney Clay Hodges: background, our interaction, case outcome and my assessment  Having suffered from increasing discomfort…

Zimmer Biomet initiated a voluntary recall of the Zimmer CPT Hip System to provide updated instructions on the risk of femur fracture. Zimmer Biomet also explained that they would stop selling this particular artificial hip by December 2024.

Artificial hips offer many patients the opportunity to live active and full lives, but sometimes they don’t always work as intended. Thankfully, these are relatively rare situations. Unfortunately, if it’s your artificial hip that fails, there’s not much comfort in knowing the artificial hips in most other patients work as designed. Because an artificial hip…

For a while now, Stryker has had issues with some of its hip replacement artificial implants. One troublesome type in particular has been the LFIT V40 series. Specifically, in some of these Stryker hips corrosion forms where the femoral head connects with the femoral stem. This would often lead to taper lock failure, or a…

Not all artificial hips fail. Many total hip replacement surgeries are successful. Unfortunately, artificial hips, particularly “metal-on-metal” hips, have “failed” at a rate much higher than previous artificial hip systems, whose components typically consisted of a combination of metals, plastics, and ceramics. The metal-on-metal design placed a metal ball or head directly into a metal…

Exactech Inc. (Exactech) is a company that makes various products to repair or replace joints in the human body. Some of Exactech’s biggest selling products have been replacement joints for hips, knees and ankles. Unfortunately, there have been some problems with certain products suffering from premature wear and other issues. This has led to some…

Artificial joint manufacturers like Exactech have special methods for packaging UHMWPE implants. First, they place them in special vacuum bags that have little to no oxygen inside them. Second, they use special materials for these vacuum bags, such as ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH). The EVOH helps keep air from leaking through the vacuum bags and exposing the implant to oxygen.

Several years ago I wrote a blog post for my product liability website where I encouraged medical device manufacturers to put me out of business. What I meant by writing that article was to say that I would be happy as a lawyer to move on to other practice areas on the day that medical…

Earlier I wrote about how Exactech was recalling many of its ankle, hip and knee liner implants. These recalls were based, at least in part, on several studies about how these implants could suffer from premature wear. This could then require patients to need revision surgery (surgery to repair problems from an earlier surgery) to…