DePuy ASR Hip Lawsuit

More than 170 South African plaintiffs in lawsuits filed after the DePuy ASR hip replacement recall of August 2010 are gearing up to sue the manufacturer for damages in British court, according to Enca.com. "Our South African clients were unable to sue DePuy in South Africa, and therefore started...

The federal judge overseeing thousands of DePuy ASR hip recall lawsuits in a federal multidistrict litigation underway in Ohio federal court has pushed back its second bellwether trial, originally scheduled for July, to September. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge David A. Katz of the Northern...

The Daily Mail is reporting on a British armed forces minister planning to file a hip replacement lawsuit over an implant he received prior to the DePuy hip recall of August 2010. As a result of the ASR metal-on-metal hip replacement he was implanted with during a resurfacing procedure in 2006, t...

Consumers Union is urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to try and prevent the kind of injuries associated with hip replacement lawsuits by implementing a new regulation for metal-on-metal hips requiring all manufacturers to submit new and pre-existing designs to the agency for premark...

Proving that two juries can return very different verdicts in cases filed over the same product, a jury in Chicago rejected plaintiff allegations yesterday in the second DePuy ASR hip replacement lawsuit to go to trial in the U.S. that the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary inappropriately marketed it...

Johnson & Johnson’s $8.3 million loss in the first DePuy hip replacement lawsuit to go to trial in the U.S. is already having an impact overseas, FierceMedicalDevices.com reports. According to the Mar. 26 article, the company may be forced to settle a class action lawsuit in Australia filed...

In response to a recent editorial from USAToday.com that accused Johnson & Johnson of “leaving a trail of pain” by not issuing the DePuy ASR hip recall soon enough, the company’s worldwide vice president for clinical research promptly defended the August 2010 recall, saying it was “the r...

Not long before Johnson & Johnson was scrutinized for potentially taking too long to address the early failure rates and health risks associated with 2010’s DePuy ASR hip recall, the company was hailed for its ability to assess a problem with one of its products and act on it as quickly as pos...

Metal-on-metal hip implant patients with high levels of metal ions in their blood may still be at risk of suffering complications associated with early hip failure, even if they are not experiencing any symptoms that would suggest it, a new study has found. Findings of Study May Affect DePuy ASR Hi...

A less invasive alternative to the conventional hip replacement is sweeping the nation, and may eventually rid patients of the complications that have led thousands to file DePuy ASR hip lawsuits, Stryker hip lawsuits, Biomet hip replacement lawsuits and other claims brought against metal hip manufa...