Perdue & Kidd Files First Suit Against ConforMIS, Inc For Defective Custom Knee Implants

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Oct 23, 2014, 11:56 ET

HOUSTON, Oct. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Houston medical device injury law firm Perdue & Kidd filed a lawsuit against ConforMIS, Inc. this week, claiming the ConforMIS iTotal G2 custom knees were defective and injured plaintiff, Mary Jane Martine. This is the first lawsuit filed in the country against ConforMIS with these allegations.

Mary Jane Martine, a 65-year-old nurse, had two separate knee replacement surgeries with the ConforMIS iTotal G2 knee, the first in October 2012 and the second in April 2013. By December 2013, Mary Jane began experiencing a host of complications with her right knee replacement. She suffered from severe knee pain, heard popping sounds, and was unable to extend her knee or even stand on it. Mary Jane's doctor found that both her right and left iTotal G2 implants were defective. Mary Jane was left with no option but to undergo bilateral implant removal surgery because both of her ConforMIS knees were not working and could not be salvaged.

"ConforMIS apparently refuses to take any responsibility for what this knee implant is doing to people," said Martine's attorney Jim M. Perdue, Jr. "Mary Jane, and many patients just like her, have been forced to undergo dangerous explanation surgery and live with debilitating pain caused by the repeated failures of this knee implant. Mary Jane spent her life as a nurse helping people and answering patients' questions, so it's a shame it takes a lawsuit to have this company answer a single question about what it has done."

The ConforMIS iTotal G2 knee replacement line was cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) through the 510(k) process in September 2012. While ConforMIS claimed to the FDA that its iTotal G2 knee was substantially similar to devices previously cleared for sale, it marketed the implants as a new and different design for knee replacement. Data from the FDA shows it received reports of the ConforMIS iTotal G2 knee replacement failing as soon as the product went on the market. ConforMIS did not alert doctors or send out a recall regarding the design defects, so Mary Jane underwent her second knee replacement surgery with a defective iTotal G2.

This is the first of what may be many lawsuits filed against ConforMIS over their defective iTotal G2 knee replacements. Mary Jane Martine's lawsuit has been filed in the Southern District of Texas.

Mary Jane Martine is represented by Jim M. Perdue Jr. and Brian B. Winegar of Perdue & Kidd.

Perdue & Kidd is a national law firm of Personal Injury and Drug Injury Trial Lawyers. The firm represents individuals and businesses across the country who have been harmed personally and financially. Perdue & Kidd is based in Houston, Texas. For more information about Perdue & Kidd, visit www.perdueandkidd.com or call 713-520-2500.

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