N.Y. Plaintiff’s Suit Over Stryker Trident Hip Implant Falls to Statute of Limitations

NEW YORK — A hip implant patient who began reporting pain at the site of Stryker (NYSE: SHK) hip implant in 2006 but didn’t sue until 2012 cannot rely on a 2011 diagnosis of an alleged defect to avoid summary judgment based on a three-year statute of limitations, a New York judge has ruled.

Senior Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York said June 4 that despite the fact that revision surgery was not performed until 2011, plaintiff Maryann Guisto cannot now claim that the earlier pain was unrelated to an …