Ga. Court Denies Summary Judgment on Wright Profemur Hip and Extraction Tool Claims

MACON, Ga. - A federal judge has rejected Wright Medical's efforts to exclude testimony by plaintiffs' design expert in a Profemur hip case and denied summary judgment on most defect and warning claims arising from a failed implant and related revision surgery.

Judge C. Ashley Royal of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia granted Wright's motion for summary judgment on a manufacturing defect claim relating to the implant device, which he said plaintiffs did not contest, and on failure to warn of alleged defects in a prototype extraction tool used in an effort to remove a …