The bhr implant consists of a spherical metal cap on the femur leg which connects to a metal cup installed within the hip socket.
Birmingham hip replacement lawsuit.
Known settlements amount to at least 2 2 billion.
Hip replacement lawsuits claim patients were left with serious side effects due to device design or defects.
Birmingham hip resurfacing recall other smith nephew hip recalls.
Thousands of hip replacement lawsuits have been filed against various device makers.
Back in 2012 they also recalled the r3 acetabular system.
Food and drug administration issued its own warning on the r3 system.
Several different hip replacement systems and artificial hip components sold in recent years have been linked to high failure rates and other complications.
The birmingham hip resurfacing or bhr system and r3 acetabular hip system metal liners are part of a mass litigation.
This led to many people filing hip lawsuit claims.
Similar to the birmingham hip recall smith nephew issued a worldwide voluntary recall of the smf redapt and r3 metal liners in june 2012 after reports of device loosening hip pain.
The birmingham hip resurfacing bhr system is a metal on metal hip implant manufactured by smith nephew that was used in patients who needed partial hip resurfacing or complete hip replacement.
Product liability lawsuits are being review.
People have also begun filing lawsuits over smith nephew s modular smf and modular redapt hip implants.