My fiance had a knee replacement and it was a horrible, painful surgery. He had problems thereafter and one night two years later hobbled in and said, "There is a screw coming out of my knee." I looked and there was a screw pushing from inside his knee and he could not bend it. Next day, the surgeon who had performed the surgery turned white when he saw the x ray of the screw backing out inside his knee. My fiance had to have a SECOND surgery to replace the screw and plastic parts in his knee. It was horrendous and doubly painful the second time!.
We decided to get our out of pocket costs back from Stryker, the maker of the bad knee/. We have called and called and spoken to the Stryker attorney, who made us a ridiculous offer of less than 1/4 of what we spent in copays at the hospital and other expenses". But that told us that they know they are liable!. We declined and gave her an offer, still way too low, but they should have jumped all over it..
Now Erika, the Stryker attorney dodges our phone calls and does not call back anymore". She thinks she can out smart us on this and that is not going to happen|.
My fiance suffered greatly due to their malfeasance, lost a month of work, spent money out of his pocket to have this knee revision and had to have a 8 inch cut in his knee a SECOND TIME!!!
If your doctor ever tells you they will insert a Stryker knee or hip when doing a replacement, RUN AWAY|. They sell bad products and will not stand behind them. 3869b24