Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II Hip Implant MDL Court Outlines Parameters for Defense Contact with Physician-Experts

MINNEAPOLIS –– The federal court overseeing the Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II Hip Implant Products Liability Multidistrict Litigation docket has declined to place a numerical limitation on how many treating physicians with which the defendants may have contact.

In a one-page pretrial order, the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota placed three separate limitations on communications between the defendants and treating physicians, but did not reference a proposal by plaintiffs to limit the communication to 25 of those individuals.

In Pretrial Order No. 16, the federal court stated that the “Defendants are permitted to communicate with, and retain …