Stryker Shapematch Legal News Articles & Interviews

New Orleans, LAStryker ShapeMatch lawsuits have been filed against Howmedica Osteonics Corp (doing business as Stryker Orthopaedics), alleging patients were harmed by the use of the ShapeMatch Cutting Guide. The plaintiffs allege that issues with the ShapeMatch Cutting Guide, used with the Stryker Triathlon knee implant, resulted in knee implant failure.

Kalamazoo, MI When Stryker did an about-face on its troubled ShapeMatch Cutting Guide in November 2012 after only 18 months, the medical device company said at the time that patients who had undergone knee replacement utilizing the recalled guides would not require follow-up “beyond the routine standard of care.” However, plaintiffs having filed a ShapeMatch Cutting Guide lawsuit, beg to disagree with that statement.

Lafayette, LA A Stryker ShapeMatch lawsuit has survived a motion to dismiss by the defendants, although the plaintiff has been told she must amend her complaint. The ShapeMatch Cutting Guide lawsuit alleged the plaintiff was harmed by the use of the cutting guide, which was recalled since her surgery.

Washington, DC The push in recent years toward innovation in surgical techniques that result in increasingly smaller incisions and faster closures of those incisions are thought to increase benefit to the patient by way of fewer complications and faster healing. However, for some patients, the opposite is true, and the recall of the Stryker ShapeMatch Cutting Guide system and corresponding ShapeMatch Cutting Guide lawsuits speak volumes about the tendency for best-laid plans to become derailed by poor execution.

Mahway, NJ When patients anticipate hip and knee replacement failures, they generally think the problem will be with the implant itself. Many people do not consider that there might be an issue with the technology that is supposed to make the implant surgeries easier. But concerns about the Stryker ShapeMatch Cutting Guide suggest that while there can be issues with implanted devices themselves, there can also be problems with technology used during the surgeries.

Kalamazoo, MI Any ShapeMatch Cutting Guide lawsuit, pundits say, might include reference to a loophole in product testing guidelines long maintained by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and widely derided by critics. To wit, any proposed medical device with a design similar to a product already on the market can bypass the usual clinical trial process and get to market faster.

Newark, NJ As Stryker settles four of its hip replacement lawsuits, concerns have been raised about the Stryker Triathlon knee implant, and knee replacement lawsuits have reportedly been filed alleging problems with the ShapeMatch Cutting Guide, used along with the Triathlon knee implant.

Lafayette, LA One could understand Ouita Corley’s frustration with her knee replacement surgery, an operation that has been performed hundreds of thousands of times. But what sets Corley apart from other knee replacement patients, is the use of Stryker ShapeMatch Cutting Guide in her procedure. The device has since been recalled, and Corley now serves as a plaintiff in a ShapeMatch Cutting Guide lawsuit.

New Orleans, LA (Press Release) In August 2013, Michael Hingle & Associates, LLC filed one of the nation’s first lawsuits against the manufacturers of the ShapeMatch Cutting Guide. The complaint alleges that the ShapeMatch Cutting Guide that was used to position a total knee replacement in Plaintiff’s body misaligned causing the knee replacement to be implanted in the wrong position.