Products & exposure
Defective medical device
Tell us what happened and where. Nothing here is legal advice, and nothing on this page predicts what any case is worth.
What matters in a defective medical device claim?
The product or substance, how you were exposed to it, and what injury followed. Keep the item itself if you still have it, along with packaging, batch numbers, receipts and any instructions or warnings that came with it. Medical records tie the exposure to the harm. Cases like these often involve many people harmed by the same product, and an attorney licensed in your state can tell you whether yours is one of them.
Capture the scene and your recovery
Ask for the implant or device details — the make, model, lot and serial number — which are in your surgical records. Keep every imaging report and follow-up note, and record the symptoms with dates.
Record what you know without guessing at fault. If you are unsure about something, write down that you are unsure — that is more useful later than a confident guess, and nobody expects you to have a complete account.
What tends to decide cases like this
The make, model, lot and serial number of an implant are recorded in the operative note, and that is what identifies whether a device is subject to a recall or a wider action. Ask for the operative note specifically. Keep every imaging report and follow-up, and note any revision surgery with its date.
What can affect a claim like this
The evidence, the law that applies where it happened, the deadlines that apply to that kind of claim, and the circumstances all matter. Someone else’s result does not determine yours, and no figure on this site is a prediction for any case.
An attorney looks at how serious the injury is and how clearly it is documented, what care has been needed, whether the effects are expected to last, what income has been lost, who was responsible and what evidence shows it. Where responsibility is shared, how that is treated differs from state to state.
How to start
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Can these settlements predict my result?
No. Any figure below is one case, reported by the source named beneath it. They are other people’s cases — not our results, not typical, and not a prediction for anyone else. What a particular claim is worth depends on the evidence, responsibility, treatment, losses, future needs, insurance and the law of that state.
Published settlement context
Hip-implant settlement program disclosure: $1.425 billion in recorded charges…
$1,425,000,000Hip-implant settlement program disclosure: $1.425 billion in recorded charges represented the low end of estimated losses.
Program accounting estimate · 2014-11-03. Company accounting estimate across claims, not a single settlement, fixed program total or individual payout. Excluded from all individual ranges.
Reported 2014
Source: Stryker Form 8-K filed with the U.S. SEC (opens in a new tab)Free case evaluation
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