Chicago DePuy Hip Trial Jury Rules in Favor of Johnson & Johnson and DePuy
In delivering their verdict on March 16, a jury in the Chicago DePuy Hip trial ruled in Johnson & Johnson and DePuy’s favor. In an article from the New York Times, the jury released a verdict stating that neither Johnson & Johnson nor DePuy engaged in a misleading marketing campaign to promote the metal-on-metal hip implant. In contrast to the Chicago DePuy Hip trial, in the first DePuy ASR Hip lawsuit to go to trial in California, the plaintiff Loren Kransky was awarded a compensatory award of $8.3 million. Continue Reading
DePuy ASR Trial Strum v. DePuy Hears Testimony from Orthopedic Surgeon Involved in DePuy ASR Hip Design
In the latest news to come out of the a DePuy ASR trial being heard in a Chicago court, an orthopedic surgeon, who assisted DePuy in developing the DePuy ASR Hip implant, provided testimony on April 2. In his testimony, Thomas P. Schmalzried claimed that DePuy’s design process was complete, yet if given the choice to use the DePuy ASR Hip implant today, Schmalzried admitted he would refuse, according to an article by Law 360. In fact, as an orthopedic surgeon, Schmalzried conceded that it has been a long Continue Reading
USA Today Editorial Decries Johnson & Johnson and DePuy for Failure to Properly Address Defective DePuy ASR Hip Implant
Submit Your Claim A recent USA Today editorial piece published on March 24 takes the position that Johnson & Johnson and DePuy mismanaged the development and marketing efforts behind their DePuy ASR Hip Replacement system. Stemming from our own investigation into the DePuy ASR Hip implant, lawyers at Carey Danis & Lowe agree that neither Johnson & Johnson nor their subsidiary, DePuy, correctly addressed any of the warning signs. According to the USA Today opinion piece, Johnson & Johnson and DePuy ignored red flags, and as a result, did Continue Reading
DePuy President Testifies in Strum v. DePuy: DePuy Defense Asserts DePuy ASR Hip Recall about Revision Rates not Defective Product
Submit Your Claim DePuy President, Andrew Ekdahl, delivered testimony during day three of Strum v. DePuy, a case being heard in a Chicago state court. The DePuy ASR Hip lawsuit involves Carol Strum, whose lawsuit against DePuy is the second of 10,750 DePuy ASR Hip lawsuit to go to trial. According to Ekdahl, DePuy initiated the DePuy ASR Hip recall due to the high rates of revision associated with the metal-on-metal hip implant. However, according to a Businessweek article about the Chicago case, the medical device manufacturer’s defense attorney, Continue Reading
FDA Sends Stryker Warning Letter about Negligent Business Practices
Submit Your Claim According to a Reuters report published on March 12, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent Stryker a warning letter about its business practices and its marketing strategy. The letter follows a visit by the FDA to a Styrker plant in November 2012. The FDA visited a Stryker plant in Portage, Michigan to conduct an inspection, and discovered that Stryker, the manufacturer of orthopedic implants, had been marketing implants without FDA approval. Furthermore, Stryker had also recalled one of their products without communicating this Continue Reading
Second DePuy ASR Hip Trial Begins in Chicago Court
Submit Your Claim On the heels of Johnson & Johnson’s loss in a California Superior Court case regarding their DePuy ASR Hip implant, the second DePuy ASR Hip lawsuit started on March 11 in the Circuit Court of Cook County in Chicago, Illinois. The case is Strum v. DePuy, and involves the plaintiff, Carol Strum, a 54 year old nurse and Illinois resident. After receiving a DePuy ASR Hip implant, Strum claims that her implant proved defective after only three years. Strum’s case is the second DePuy ASR Hip Continue Reading
Kransky v. DePuy Jury Awards Plaintiff $8.3 Million Compensatory Award
Submit Your Claim On March 8, the jury in Kransky v. DePuy awarded the plaintiff in the case a compensatory award of $8.3 million. The compensatory damages to be paid to the plaintiff, Loren Kransky, by Johnson & Johnson cover Kransky’s pain and suffering after receiving an implant of the DePuy ASR Hip. However, the jury decided against awarding punitive damages because they believe that Johnson & Johnson and DePuy had supplied sufficient warning about the health risks involved with the use of the DePuy ASR Hip implant. Kransky Continue Reading
Carey Danis & Lowe Optimistic About DePuy ASR Hip Lawsuits Following Johnson & Johnson Loss
Submit Your Claim Published March 19, 2013 by PR Web St. Louis, Missouri (PRWEB) March 19, 2013 With defective medical device lawyers currently investigating DePuy ASR Hip Replacement system cases, Carey Danis & Lowe is optimistic about the future of DePuy ASR Hip lawsuits that go to trial. Kransky v. DePuy, a case being heard in a California Superior Court in Los Angeles, involved the plaintiff, Loren Kransky, and resulted in Kransky receiving a compensatory award of $8.3 million, according to a New York Times report on the [DePuy trial]. Though the Continue Reading
First DePuy ASR Hip Replacement Lawsuit Goes to Trial in Los Angeles Superior Court
Submit Your Claim The first in 10,000 DePuy ASR Hip Replacement lawsuits went to trial in a California Superior Court in Los Angeles County on January 25. The case is Kransky v. DePuy. The plaintiff, Loren Kransky, is a North Dakota resident who received a DePuy ASR Hip Replacement, and filed the lawsuit claiming a defective design and manufacturer negligence. According to an article recently published by the New York Times, Johnson & Johnson was aware of a serious design flaw in the DePuy ASR Hip Replacement. However, internal Continue Reading
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
