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Company

HowMedica Osteonics Corp

Federal civil lawsuits naming HowMedica Osteonics Corp.

In this index, 4,791 federal civil lawsuits name a party recorded as HowMedica Osteonics Corp, most often as a defendant (4,756 of 4,791). These may be different parties who share the name; records here are grouped by name only. These cases are most often Product Liability and Contract matters, filed between 1999 and 2026, most frequently in District Court, D. Minnesota. The most common causes of action are Product Liability, Personal Injury, and Breach of Contract.

Also recorded in dockets as: Howmedica Osteonics · Howmedica Osteonics Corporation · Howmedica Osetonics · Howmedica Osteonbics · Howmedica Ostenics Corporation · Howmedica Osteonic Corporation · Howmedica Osetonics Corporation · Stryker Howmedica Osteonics.

Corporate Family Part of the Stryker family — 5,872 cases across 4 affiliated entities.
4,791
Lawsuits
4,756
As Defendant
35
As Plaintiff
357
Open
4,434
Terminated
1999–2026
Span
23 mo
Median Duration
4,698 of these cases (98%) are Product Liability filings — large waves of near-identical suits consolidated into multidistrict litigation (MDL) proceedings. The totals and the year chart reflect that concentration, not typical caseload.
171 cases/yrNamed as defendant in 99% of cases98% Product LiabilityRecent filings down

Cases by State

AL — 17 casesAZ — 6 casesAR — 32 casesCA — 31 casesCO — 8 casesCT — 5 casesDE — 1 casesDC — 2 casesFL — 30 casesGA — 16 casesID — 1 casesIL — 62 casesIN — 16 casesIA — 3 casesKS — 1 casesKY — 8 casesLA — 33 casesME — 5 casesMD — 3 casesMA — 924 casesMI — 17 casesMN — 3,255 casesMS — 2 casesMO — 0 casesMT — 2 casesNE — 0 casesNV — 5 casesNH — 0 casesNJ — 79 casesNM — 3 casesNY — 30 casesNC — 0 casesND — 2 casesOH — 12 casesOK — 30 casesOR — 42 casesPA — 30 casesRI — 4 casesSC — 4 casesSD — 0 casesTN — 18 casesTX — 12 casesUT — 2 casesVT — 2 casesVA — 2 casesWA — 7 casesWV — 3 casesWI — 11 casesWY — 1 cases
AK · 12

Open Cases Over Time

1999peak 2,101 open2026

Case Types Over Time

19992026
Product LiabilityContractReal PropertyCivil RightsPatent

Filings by Year

19992026

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Product Liability4,698
Contract37
Real Property19
Civil Rights9
Patent8
Federal Tax / Statutory Actions6

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Clustered litigation · MDL 4,698 Product Liability member cases 98% of the caseload is a wave of near-identical suits consolidated into multidistrict litigation — grouped here rather than listed one by one. Browse all 4,698 member cases →

93 Other Cases — Newest First

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