Medical device litigation follows a recognizable arc: a recall or safety signal, a wave of individual filings, consolidation, discovery into
Most Cartiva lawsuits center on one event: the surgery to remove a failed implant and salvage the joint. Because the
On October 31, 2024, Stryker issued a Class II recall of the Cartiva Synthetic Cartilage Implant — all four sizes,
Many Cartiva patients learned about the October 2024 recall from a news story rather than their surgeon. If that was
On February 5, 2026, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation consolidated federal Cartiva cases as MDL 3172, In re: Cartiva
Big-toe arthritis is a grinding, everyday kind of pain. Every step loads that joint. For decades the definitive fix was
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