DePuy® Hip Implant Lawsuit

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Free DePuy Hip Implant Lawsuit Evaluation: If you or a loved one has been injured by or need a revision surgery due to a defective DePuy hip implant, you should contact our law firm immediately. You may be entitled to compensation by filing a lawsuit and we can help.

Metal-on-Metal Hip Implant Update 4/3/12: The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has scheduled a two-day meeting in June to discuss the safety of metal-on-metal hip implants, which have been increasingly associated with high rates of failure. The devices have come under heavy scrutiny over the past several years due to a high number of reports of pain and swelling that have sometimes required additional revision surgeries to correct. Click here to learn more.

DePuy Hip Update 3/23/12: In 2009, Johnson & Johnson made the decision to phase out its DePuy ASR hip replacement just weeks after the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) sent a letter to the company requesting additional safety information about the device. In the letter, the FDA told J&J that it had received multiple reports of “high concentration of metal ions” in ASR recipients. Click here to learn more.

DePuy Hip Update 3/6/12: Hundreds of thousands of patients have been fitted with DePuy metal-on-metal hip implant devices whose faulty design may be exposing them to toxic cobalt and chromium shards, according to a report published last month in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The risk allegedly comes from the implants’ metal joints grinding together against each other, which can result in a severe type of metal poisoning known as metallosis. Click here to learn more.

DePuy Hip Update 2/17/12: Johnson & Johnson actively marketed and sold an artificial hip device in Europe and elsewhere that had been rejected in the United States, according to an article published in the New York Times. The DePuy ASR hip implant devices rejected by the FDA were developed for use in a hip replacement procedure known as resurfacing. Click here to learn more.

Attention DePuy Hip Implant Recipients: ASR devices found to be defective

Consumer Alert: Did you know that a large number of Johnson & Johnson’s Articular Surface Replacement (ASR) hip replacement devices have been failing after only a few years?

Many believe the medical implant system is to blame. Unlike new drugs – which have to be rigorously tested prior to being FDA approved – critical implants such as artificial hip devices may be sold without being tested, so long as the device resembles one that has already been approved. Why would such a loophole exist? Because it allows manufacturers to bundle a component from an unapproved implant into an existing design and sell it with little to no testing or clinical trials.

Director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group Dr.Sidney M. Wolfe said, “You are basically testing these devices in an uncontrolled way on a large number of people.”

How many defective DePuy hip implants were implanted?

It is uncertain how many patients received an ASR because Johnson & Johnson does not track such implants. Officials estimate that approximately 30% of some 93,000 patients worldwide who received the ASR implant were in the United States. The ASR has a component called a ‘cup,’ which is the part of the joint that replaces a patient’s hip socket. It was that cup’s design that has proven to be faulty.

These fundamental problems with the device sometimes require extremely painful additional revision surgeries. In other patients, however, the damage to bone, muscles and nerves has left them permanently disabled. This kind of damage can make a replacement operation vastly more complicated if not impossible.

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The Medical Device & Products Liability Litigation Group at our law firm is an experienced team of trial lawyers that focus on the representation of plaintiffs in DePuy hip implant lawsuits. We are handling individual litigation nationwide and currently accepting new cases in all 50 states.