Suppose you received a traffic citation in the past and put it away, thinking you would pay it “later.” Then your life got busy and you simply forgot all about the ticket. Alternatively you may have agreed to appear in court and enter a plea and the court date slipped right by. Our jobs, children, school, parents, friends—all these combine to take up our time and allow such relatively minor issues as a traffic ticket slip from our mind. You could be shocked to know that because of forgetting something—even as minor as a traffic violation—your name could now be on an arrest warrant due to the Great Texas Warrant Roundup.

 

 In the midst of the furor surrounding metal-on-metal hip implants, a recent study of U.S. implant recipients found that these implants—as well as implants made from other materials—are even more likely to fail in women than in men. In fact, women overall were 29% more likely to require a revision surgery within the first three years following their initial hip implant. Even though women comprise the majority of the 400,000 annual hip replacement surgeries each year, the studies showed no clear answer as to which type of hip implants perform the best in women.

HOUSTON, TX—The seventh annual Great Texas Warrant Roundup is here and the Law Firm of Sullo & Sullo, LLP is ready to help all of those who find they are on the list. Over three hundred jurisdictions across the state of Texas are taking part in the Roundup this year, up from approximately 260 in 2012. The City of Houston warns all those with outstanding warrants—largely due to unpaid traffic citations or failure to appear in court—to get ready, as the enforcement phase of the Roundup begins.

The first DePuy ASR hip implant trial began on January 25^th in the California Superior Court in Los Angeles County. The case, Kransky v. DePuy, revolves around Loren Kransky, a 65-year old man who received a DePuy ASR hip implant in 2007 and was forced to undergo revision surgery just five years later, in 2012.

When the Stryker Rejuvenate hip implant was introduced it was considered quite innovative in design; the Rejuvenate was marketed in 2009 after gaining FDA approval in June, 2008. While traditional hip implant designs were manufactured with a one piece neck and stem, both the Rejuvenate and ABGII have a design which implements a variety of components. In fact, the ABGII hip implant has sixteen stems—including left and right sides, and ten different sizes of modular neck. Six stems and sixteen necks make up the Rejuvenate hip implant system. Marketing for the Rejuvenate claimed that this hip implant was designed specifically for the younger, more active patient who was currently experiencing limited mobility of their hip joint.