DePuy ASR Hip Replacement Trial Scheduled to Begin on January 22, 2013 in California Superior Court
Submit Your Claim Information from a Johnson & Johnson internal study into the safety of the DePuy ASR Hip Replacement system is suggestive that the medical device manufacturer understood the serious risks associated with their hip implant. The Johnson & Johnson internal study was recently unsealed in pretrial proceedings in a DePuy ASR Hip Replacement lawsuit in California, overseen by Judge J. Stephen Czuleger. As detailed in the internal study document, the DePuy hip implant proved defective, having a significantly high failure rate with approximately 40% of patients experiencing Continue Reading
FDA Releases Safety Communication about Metal-On-Metal Hip Implants: New Safety Communication Warns About High Failure Rates and Metal Ion Reactions
Submit Your Claim The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued an updated safety communication regarding metal-on-metal hip implants on January 17, 2013. The safety communication reports how metal-on-metal hip replacement systems by design have early and high failure rates. Furthermore, as a result of the hip replacement components making contact with one another during movement like walking or running, metal particles are released into the patient’s body and bloodstream, which may result in what the FDA calls adverse local tissue reactions (ALTR). As detailed in the FDA’s safety Continue Reading
DePuy ASR Hip Replacement Lawsuit Update: Trials Scheduled to Begin this Year in Maryland, New Jersey, and Ohio
Submit Your Claim Around the country, individuals have been filing DePuy ASR Hip Replacement lawsuits, and a handful of these suits are slated to begin trial later this year. DePuy ASR Hip Replacement cases are pending in Ohio, Maryland, California, and New Jersey. One trial being heard in Maryland was scheduled to begin on January 7, 2013, but court proceedings have since been stopped as the plaintiff considers consolidating the case into a federal court in Ohio. The case is Jackson v. DePuy Orthopaedics Inc., which up until the Continue Reading
First Trials for Defective DePuy ASR Hip Replacement System Set for January 2013
Submit Your Claim A state case regarding the recalled DePuy ASR hip replacement system is scheduled to go to trial in January 2013 in Prince George’s County, Maryland. If DePuy does not settle with plaintiffs before trials begin, the Maryland court will hear three cases regarding health complications related to DePuy’s ASR hip implants. In August 2012, DePuy, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, settled state cases in Nevada regarding defective ASR hip replacement lawsuits. Trials for these ASR hip replacement cases filed against DePuy were scheduled to begin Continue Reading
Stryker Recalls Rejuvenate and ABG II Modular Hip Replacement Systems
In July 2012, Stryker issued a press release with information about a voluntary recall of its Rejuvenate modular-neck stems and its ABG II modular-neck stems, both of which are hip replacement systems manufactured and marketed by Stryker. The medical device manufacturer made the decision to voluntarily recall the Rejuvenate and ABG II hip replacement systems due to reports of fretting and corrosion as well as severe inflammation of adjacent tissues. In the Stryker recall press release, Stuart Simpson, Stryker’s Vice President and General Manager, Hip Reconstruction, states that, “given Continue Reading
Zimmer Issued Warning from FDA Regarding Hip Replacement System
In a letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) dated September 19, 2012, Zimmer Holdings Inc. was issued a warning regarding their hip replacement device known as the Trilogy Acetabular System. The letter of warning followed a recent FDA inspection of a Zimmer Holdings Inc. plant located in Puerto Rico. The FDA observed while at Zimmer’s Puerto Rican plant that the medical device manufacturer had not established proper testing methods for the hip replacement device. The FDA requires that measures for testing be pursued in order to Continue Reading
DePuy Hip Replacements Require Revision Surgery
In 2010, DePuy recalled two types of hip replacements, the ASR XL Acetabular System and the ASR Hip Resurfacing System. DePuy Orthopaedics is a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. DePuy decided to recall two types of hip replacements due to patients needing a second hip replacement after an unsuccessful first implant. According to complaints filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), these two kinds of DePuy hip replacements have been known to fail soon after surgery, and quite often, have caused excruciating pain requiring another hip replacement Continue Reading
Metal-on-Metal Hip Replacements Corrode Faster
Published May 13, 2012 by LawsuitInformation.org Can the fact that metal on metal hips may corrode faster than hips made from traditional materials, be the casue of their early failure? According to new medical research, metal-on-metal hip replacements may corrode faster than traditional types of artificial hip implants, such as those made from plastic or ceramic. Experts speculate that the corrosion may be linked to an increased risk of local tissue reactions that require revision or removal of the artificial hip implant. Researchers examined corrosion on the heads of Continue Reading
New Lawsuit on DePuy ASR Hip Replacement: Severe Adverse Events
Published May 14, 2012 on LawsuitInformation.org According to court documents, on May 7th 2012, a Virginia woman, Abbdella Brown, filed a lawsuit in Ohio Northern District Court (case no. 1:2012dp21074) against DePuy Orthopaedics alleging she suffered serious injuries due to ASR Hip Implant Device. DePuy Orthopeadics, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, is defending lawsuits in multidistrict litigations alleging that its ASR hip replacement (MDL 2197) and the metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip replacement systems (MDL 2244) were defectively designed. In August 2010, the DePuy ASR hips were recalled. San Diego, Continue Reading
New Lawsuit on Zimmer Durom Cup: Adverse Events
Published May 17, 2012 on LawsuitInformation.org According to court documents, on March 15th, 2012, a California resident, Therese Gonzales, filed a lawsuit in New Jersey District Court (case no. 2:2012cv01651) against Zimmer Inc. alleging that Zimmer Durom Cup was defectively designed and caused her pain and side effects that “are consistent with loosening of the acetabular cups used in her hip replacements”. The Zimmer Durom Cup is an artificial hip component widely used in hip replacement surgeries in the US since 2006. On June 9th, 2010, the US Judicial Continue Reading
