Wyoming Suit Alleges Defects in Stryker’s Gamma3 Locking Nail

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A Wyoming man whose physician used a “Stryker Gamma3 Locking Nail System” to repair a broken hip and femur alleges in a recent complaint that the system’s inherent defects caused it to fail under stress.

Wayne Tolman filed the action against Stryker Corp. (NYSE: SYK) in Big Horn County’s (Wyo.) Fifth District Court Dec. 12. Stryker removed the action to the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming on Jan. 16.

“Stryker knew or should have know[n] of the propensity for its Gamma Nail #3 to break when stressed, which is why the design and manufacturing …