$8.3M Jury Verdict In DePuy Hip Implant Case
March 17, 2013
On March 8, 2013, a Los Angeles, California jury awarded $8.3 million to a 65-year-old plaintiff who had received an ASR XL hip implant manufactured by DePuy Orthopaedics (“DePuy”), a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, finding that the hip implant was defectively designed and caused th[...]
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Are Metal Hip Replacements Safe?
March 15, 2012
The world’s largest artificial joint registry, the National Joint Registry of England and Wales, recommended this month that the use of metal-on-metal hip replacements be stopped, based on a study of the data involving more than 400,000 hip replacements between 2003 and 2011 that included d[...]
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Hip Replacement Recall (Hip Implant Failure)
August 25, 2011
There has been much talk recently regarding hip implant failures and recalls of hip implants. Hip replacement failures include the loosening of the components, the mal-alignment of the components, infections, bone fractures, dislocations, sensitivities to the metals used in the components (includi[...]
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