Plaintiff Who Can't ID Maker of Knee Implant Ordered to Amend Complaint

COLUMBUS, Ga. - A Georgia judge has refused to dismiss claims by a plaintiff who allegedly suffered injuries from two failed knee revision and replacement surgeries, despite the woman's inability to identify which of three named defendants manufactured the products that failed following her second surgery. Parker v. Howmedica Osteonics Corp., et al., Nos. 12-26, 12-49 (M.D. Ga.).

Judge Clay D. Land of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia ruled May 3 that while Barbara Parker's complaint is deficient in that it fails to identify the product allegedly responsible for her injury, the more appropriate course …