The Los Angeles County Superior Court ruled on Wright Medical Technology's Profemur hip implant lawsuit.
Here are five things to know:
1. The jury found the implant didn't have a defective design, but there were defects in the implant's manufacturing.
2. Wright Medical plans to appeal the ruling.
3. The company faces more than 1,000 lawsuits over their hip implant technology and most of the cases were coordinated for pretrial proceedings in the LA County Superior Court or the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
4. The most recent case rendered a $4.5 million verdict against Wright Medical.
5. This litigation is following a similar trajectory as the DePuy, Stryker and Biomet hip litigations with large awards favoring plaintiffs. That could make it difficult to resolve the thousands of current active lawsuits, according to Patty Kirby, COO and head of client relations at Legal Bay Lawsuit Funding.