March 22, 2017
The Eleventh Circuit has affirmed a $2.1 million jury verdict in favor of a patient who won the first bellwether trial against Wright Medical Technology over its allegedly defective metal hip implants, supporting the trial judge's decision to order the confused jury to conduct further deliberations.
April 06, 2016
A Georgia federal judge has reduced by $9 million the damage award granted by an Atlanta jury last year against Wright Medical Technology in the first bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation over its allegedly defective metal hip implant, though the company’s bid for a new trial was rejected.
March 15, 2016
The lead attorneys for patients in the multidistrict litigation over Wright Medical Technology Inc.'s hip implants argued Tuesday in support of a dying cancer patient in the litigation who has asked to remand her suit to state court where her suit could proceed quicker.
March 14, 2016
Wright Medical Technology Inc. continued to fight for a new trial Friday after being slammed with an $11 million verdict in a bellwether trial over its metal hip implants, arguing the verdict only arose out of jurors' confusion from being asked to reconsider their original finding that the device wasn't defective.
March 01, 2016
Wright Medical Technology Inc. urged a Georgia federal judge to stick with the bellwether trial plan in multidistrict litigation over allegedly defective hip implants rather than remand the case of a woman who says she has cancer and won't live to testify, arguing Monday that other arrangements can be made.
February 29, 2016
A recipient of an allegedly defective metal hip implant in an MDL bellwether trial has urged a Georgia federal court not to toss her $11 million verdict, saying that contrary to Wright Medical Technology’s arguments, the court’s decisions were proper.
January 28, 2016
Wright Medical Technology Inc. told a Georgia federal judge Thursday that an $11 million verdict in a bellwether trial over allegedly defective metal hip implants should be thrown out because the jury initially concluded that there was nothing wrong with the implant.
November 25, 2015
An Atlanta jury hit Wright Medical Technology Inc. with an $11 million verdict Tuesday in the first bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation over its allegedly defective metal hip implant, finding that the plaintiff's implant was defective and that the company had misrepresented the safety of the device.
November 18, 2015
Wright Medical Group Inc. was set free from the first trial in multidistrict litigation over its medical device unit's allegedly defective metal hip implant, but the jury may decide on the case against the unit itself, a Georgia federal judge ruled Wednesday.
November 04, 2015
Days before a consumer squares off with Wright Medical Technology in the first multidistrict litigation bellwether case over an allegedly defective metal-on-metal hip implant, a Georgia federal judge said Tuesday he'd allow previous product design and surveillance evidence from the company, but nixed two of the consumer's experts.