JPML Reviewing Transfers of Biomet M2a-Taper Hip Cases to Existing MDL

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has vacated the conditional transfer of a Nevada Biomet M2a-Taper hip implant case to the M2a-Magnum MDL pending consideration of the transfer issue at its March 21 meeting.

In a Feb. 26 Order Vacating Conditional Transfer Order, the panel said its conditional notice transferring Popick to the Biomet MDL in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana was in error, and the appropriateness of transferring cases involving the M2a-Taper device is on the March 21 agenda (Mattern, et al. v. Biomet, Inc., et al., No. 2:12-cv-04931, D. N.J.). …