DePuy Pinnacle Hip Lawsuit

Johnson & Johnson, the world’s biggest healthcare product manufacturer, has announced its plans to stop selling the metal Ultamet liner component of an implant at the center of over 4,000 DePuy hip replacement lawsuits at the end of August, Bloomberg.com reports. According to the article po...

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...

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...

Bernstein Liebhard LLP has begun to file Stryker hip lawsuits in a consolidated litigation recently created in New Jersey Superior Court as well as a Biomet hip replacement lawsuit in Indiana federal court, the Firm reports. It was also announced in the past two weeks that our lawyers have been a...

Johnson & Johnson is still facing mounting litigation over its DePuy ASR and DePuy Pinnacle hip replacements, and now, the company has issued yet another metal-on-metal hip recall. The company recalled the “Adept” line of an all-metal hip replacement system because of higher than expected fa...

The judge overseeing proceedings for the DePuy Pinnacle litigation has ordered that all parties in the multidistrict litigation (MDL) comply with the confidentiality measures set forth by the United Kingdom for its National Joint Registry data. As per the January 23rd Order issued by Judge James ...

A new federal court order for preserving tissue samples and components of the DePuy Ultramet liner—which was utilized in all metal-on-metal hips involved in the DePuy Pinnacle litigation—has been issued to ensure the integrity of evidence contracted during patient revision surgeries. The Expl...

New metal-on-metal hip implant guidance issued the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) may have some all-metal hip implant recipients confused, especially if they are aware of last year’s Stryker hip recall for Rejuvenate and ABG II Modular-Neck hip stems.  While the FDA says it does not be...

A recent motion from plaintiffs in the DePuy Pinnacle hip implant lawsuit tries to compel defendants DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. to produce documents regarding a 2007 investigation into whether the company bribed doctors to use DePuy hip implants. The motion was submitted on December 24, 2012 by the ...