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ATTORNEYS representing individuals
injured as a result of the Sulzer hip replacment: American Legal Network: Sulzer Hip, multiple locations Ashcraft & Gerel, multiple locations Beasley, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, Montgomery, AL Brown & Crouppen, St. Louis, MO Burton LeBlanc, Baton Rouge, LA Cliff Roberts & Roberts Law Office, Houston, TX Ed Bernstein and Associates Law Firm, Law Vegas, NV Injury Lawyer Network, multiple locations James, Hoyer, Newcomer & Smiljanich, P.A., Tampa, FL Hughes & Coleman, Lexington, KY Kellogg, Saccoccia & Sigelman, Atlanta, GA Law Offices of Levinson, Zeccola, Reineke, Ornstein & Selinger, P.C., New York, NY Law Offices of Lopez, Hodes, Restaino, Milman, Skikos & Polos, multiple locations Law Offices of Jonathan David, P.C. The Woodlands, TX Lawrence E. Feldman & Associates, Jenkintown, PA Manuel & Thompson, Panama City, FL Menges, Gent & McLaughlin, York, PA Michael J. Evans; Fob James III, Birmingham, AL Overchuck Newsome Firm, Orlando, FL Parsons Thompson & Hill, Wheeling, WV Peterson & Associates, Fairway, KS Saunders, Walker & Coleman, P.A., Pinellas Park, FL Specter Specter Evans & Manogue, PC, Pittsburgh, PA Sulzer Legal Alliance Law Firms, multiple locations Sulzer Hip Replacement Recall Legal Center, Boston, MA SulzerLitigation.com - Reno, NV Tamminga Professional Association, Gilford, NH The Warren Group, Columbia, SC Younce & Vtipil, PA, Raleigh NC
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Faulty Manufacturing AUGUST 23, 2001 -- HIP ACTION GROUP (HAG) wants Sulzer Medica and Sulzer Orthopedics to provide appropriate care and punitive renumeration to its patients who have suffered from faulty hip implants. On December 8, 2000, Sulzer announced the recall of its Inter-Op Acetabular Shells used in hip replacement surgery. The shells were primarily sold in the U.S. after October 1999 with a small number of lots sold after July 1997. There are more than 1,850 people, primarily elderly in the U.S., who had faulty hip replacements made by Swiss medical device maker Sulzer Medica. The company estimates that about 12,800 implants were made with lubricant residue remaining on the device. Headquartered in Switzerland, Sulzer Medica develops, manufactures and markets medical devices and biological products for cardiovascular and orthopedic markets worldwide. Sulzer Medica has a United Subsidiary, Sulzer Orthopedics, Inc., located in Austin, Texas. In early December, Sulzer Orthopedics discovered that a change in their manufacturing process allowed a trace of mineral oil to remain on the surface of some of the hip implant parts. In some cases, the implant did not bond properly with the patient's bone. There have been 803 revisions, replacements of the affected parts, in the U.S. The problem can be traced to a mix-up in the way a coolant was used in the manufacturing of the shell, or the hemispherical part of the implant that is inserted into the upper part of the hip. This "cup" is covered in a porous titanium coating that needs to be cooled and then tooled. The tooling machine was lubricated with a Mobil oil, some of which seeped into coolant that was sprayed on the shells. The defect dates back as far as 1997 with certain Sulzer hip implants. Prior to 1997, Sulzer had relied upon a Pennsylvania company to produce the shells. Beginning in 1997 and not completed until 1999, Sulzer moved the production of the hip shells "in-house." This is why most of the recalled hip implants were manufactured in 1999 and thereafter, but some date back to 1997.
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