By: Sara Goldstein | 2010-10-08 | Personal injury Product liability is a very complex area of personal injury law that deals with holding those accountable for injuries and deaths suffered by consumers due to defective products. There are a number of parties that can be held liable should someone be injured or killed due to a dangerous or defective product. read more
By: Shauna Ruppert | 2010-10-01 | Health & Fitness This discusses the recent DePuy hip replacement recall and how it has affected patients who have undergone hip surgery. read more
By: G. Reed. | 2011-04-09 | Law Thousands of people who have had hip surgery have gotten the troubling news that two DePuy hip replacement devices have been recalled. The two devices involved are the ASR XL Acetabular System and the... read more
By: Genny Brown | 2010-10-29 | Medicine DePuy Orthopedics announced a recall of certain DePuy hip replacement devices after research showed a high rate of failure in some DePuy hip devices. Following the announcement of the DePuy recall, some patients filed lawsuits against DePuy and its parent company, Johnson & Johnson, alleging the DePuy hip replacement devices were negligently designed. read more
By: Katherine Russel | 2011-08-06 | Health and safety DePuy Orthopaedics Inc., a subsidiary company of Johnson & Johnson, has recalled their ASR hip replacement products which are the ASR™ XL Acetabular System/DePuy ASR™ Hip Resurfacing System through a recall notice released last August 24, 2010. read more
By: William Davis | 2011-01-08 | Wellness DePuy Orthopaedics, a division of Johnson & Johnson, recalled two of its hip implant devices in the summer of 2010 due to adverse reports received by the FDA between 2006 and 2009. A higher-than-normal number of patients, between 12-13 percent, required revision surgery to replace the defective devices within five years of the initial procedure. read more
By: William Davis | 2011-03-09 | Wellness By now it should be clear to everyone that the DePuy recall came about because the manufacturer didn’t test its products. Worse, it delayed as long as possible instead of acting promptly when the first sign of trouble hit. read more
By: William Davis | 2011-02-28 | Wellness The DePuy recall is far from Johnson & Johnson’s first defective product recall. In only the past two years, J&J and its subsidiaries have recalled products that include everything from medications (Tylenol and Motrin) to the current hip replacement system recalls of the ASR XL Acetabular System and the ASR Hip Resurfacing System. In April 2010 alone, there were recalls on 40 J& read more
By: Katherine Russel | 2011-11-29 | Health & Fitness The hiring of BroadSpire Services Inc. by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to handle the DePuy hip replacement recall was heavily criticized. J&J is allegedly outsourcing the recall so it could cut down on the expenses entailed in facing all complaints filed following the recall, according to some critics. read more
By: William Davis | 2011-01-05 | Diseases and Conditions Reports of loose cups, implant deterioration, and metallosis—excess heavy metals in the body—all contributed to the DePuy hip replacement recall of the ASR XL Acetabular Hip System and the ASR Hip Resurfacing System in the summer of 2010. Not every recipient has a failed implant though, and some factors affect their health more than others, which is important for those considering filing read more
By: William Davis | 2010-12-08 | Women's Health On October 13, 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a report detailing the extent of DePuy’s recall of its two metal-on-metal hip replacements, the ASL XL Acetabular System and the ASL Hip Resurfacing System. The report divides the recalled implants into two series: the ASR 100 and the ASR 300. read more
By: William Davis | 2011-01-05 | Diseases and Conditions After it issued a hip replacement recall for 93,000 units in the summer of 2010, DePuy Orthopaedics began preparing for thousands of lawsuits—4,000 by one attorney’s estimate as documented by the Wisconsin Law Journal. read more
By: Katherine Russel | 2011-06-02 | Health and safety By now, people may have already known that Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, DePuy Orthopaedics, have issued a recall on their ASR XL Acetabular System and ASR Hip Resurfacing System.A DePuy lawsuit is even filed by a recipient in Australia in response to it. read more
By: William Davis | 2010-12-31 | Wellness DePuy Orthopaedics recalled 93,000 hip replacements worldwide in the summer of 2010. Since then, lawsuits against the manufacturer of the defective ASR XL Acetabular Hip System and the ASR Hip Resurfacing System began mounting. The most recent news of these is in Canada, where three class action suits are pending against the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary. read more