By: Katherine Russel | 2011-02-03 | Women's Health In general, lawsuits are usually resolved through settlement. Some lawsuits settle very quickly, and others drag on for much longer. read more
By: Katherine Russel | 2010-11-09 | Law In August 2010, DePuy Orthopaedics (a Johnson & Johnson Company) issued a worldwide recall of two hip replacement devices: the ASR XL Acetabular System and the ASR Hip Resurfacing System. read more
By: Katherine Russel | 2011-07-15 | Health and safety The legal process of consolidating related cases that were filed from remote areas around the states is called a Multidistrict Litigation. The one who determines whether those pending cases are legible for a Multidistrict Litigation consolidation is the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. read more
By: Katherine Russel | 2011-03-16 | Health and safety DePuy Orthopaedics has offered to pay for the "reasonable and customary" costs of the recall of two of its hip replacement systems: the ASR XL Acetabular System and the ASR Hip Resurfacing System. Sounds responsible right? We didn't think so either. read more
By: Katherine Russel | 2010-12-28 | Health & Fitness Globalization has opened up new markets to manufacturers, allowing them to sell products abroad as well as domestically. read more
By: Stacey Reid | 2010-12-21 | Diseases and Conditions Depuy Orthopaedics, a product division of Johnson & Johnson, issued a hip replacement recall on August 26, 2010 for all patients who received a hip replacement that is called the Depuy ASR Hip Resurfacing System and also the ASR XL Acetabular Hip System. This recall is specifically for recipients who received this hip implant after July 2003. read more
By: Katherine Russel | 2011-02-12 | Health and safety At this time, there is no artificial joint registry operating in the United States, even though registries overseas were instrumental in warning doctors that DePuy’s ASR Acetabular Hip System and ASR Hip Resurfacing System failed in 1 in 8 recipients after only 5 years. read more
By: Tim Reed | 2011-06-28 | Personal injury Triggered by a high recurrence of failure, DePuy Orthopedics issued a voluntary recall on 93,000 hip implants in August of 2009. read more
By: Katherine Russel | 2011-01-25 | Health and safety The Judicial Panel decided last week to assign the cases to Judge David A. Katz, a District Court Judge in the Northern District of Ohio, who, according to the Panel, is an experienced transferee judge. read more
By: aarenbrowns | 2011-04-15 | Business The Pinnacle hip replacement is a total hip replacement system manufactured by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, DePuy Orthopaedics. Approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2002, the De... read more
By: Susan Ardizzoni | 2010-10-01 | Health & Fitness DePuy, the manufacturer of the ASR hip replacement system has announced a recall for two of its products. These products include the DePuy ASR hip Resurfacing System and the ASR XL Acetabular System. DePuy is offering compensation for this recall; however, you may want to discuss this with an ASR Hip replacement lawyer first to make sure your rights are protected. read more
By: Susan Ardizzoni | 2010-10-01 | Women's Health DePuy, the manufacturer of the ASR hip replacement system has announced a recall for two of its products. These products include the DePuy ASR hip Resurfacing System and the ASR XL Acetabular System. DePuy is offering compensation for this recall; however, you may want to discuss this with an ASR Hip replacement lawyer first to make sure your rights are protected. read more
By: Katherine Russel | 2011-11-23 | Medicine Court documents reveal that in connection with the Articular Surface Replacement (ASR) hip systems, DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. and its mother company Johnson & Johnson face nearly 20 lawsuits everyday. read more
By: William Davis | 2011-02-14 | Women's Health DePuy Orthopaedics is a United States-based company and subsidiary of U.S. giant Johnson & Johnson. As such, it is important for foreign victims of the DePuy recall to know their rights regarding the legalities of filing a hip replacement lawsuit. read more
By: Susan Ardizzoni | 2010-11-03 | Acne The orthopedic subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson, DePuy, has recalled two of its hip replacement systems due to a high failure rate. DePuy is offering an early hip replacement settlement. Meanwhile, a motion for a hip replacement class action lawsuit as well as many individual hip replacement lawsuits have been filed. read more