Multiple international news agencies have reported that the UK’s defense minister has reportedly suffered serious adverse reactions that have been linked a DePuy’s ASR hip implant he received in 2006. This doesn’t come as a surprise given the fact that thousands of patients are now suing Johnson & Jonson over health issues related to the defective and recalled ASR hip implants. The reports show that the former Armed Forces Minister and war veteran was fitted with the metal ASR hip (read more)
Read MoreMultiple news agencies have reported that Johnson & Johnson is facing a class action lawsuit filed against the company over the defective hip implants in Australia. According to the reports, 4,500 Australians with the implants suffered with health issues linked to the potentially defective device that was recalled back in 2010. They are now fighting back by filing a lawsuit against J&J, the company responsible for the devices. Attorneys say that although the device was designed defectively, the company failed (read more)
Read MoreAccording to several news agencies, the president of the DePuy unit, which is part of Johnson & Johnson, has reportedly claimed that all 93,000 units of ASR all-metal hip implants linked to the 2010 recall were pulled from the market for not meeting clinical expectations. The multiple articles covering this story noted that the recall was not linked in any way with design defects, which was what ultimately was linked to several cases of adverse reactions that led to the (read more)
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Mar
2013
DePuy Maintains ASR Hips Are Not Defective
Multiple media outlets have been covering the recent reports on the first lawsuit filed against DePuy Orthopaedics. According to the reports, in spite of the fact the plaintiff was awarded over $8 million after the case was heard by the jurors, DePuy executives still deny that the company’s hip implants made entirely out of metal is defective. Evidence reportedly showed that the company and its executives were aware of a potential design flaw that could result in adverse reactions before (read more)
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Mar
2013
J&J Faces Second Trial Over DePuy All-Metal Hips
Johnson & Johnson has recently lost an $8.3 million verdict in the first trial concerning DePuy’s ASR all metal-hip implants. Now, the company is facing the second trial linked to the potentially defective product. According to the reports, the company’s lawyer has denied that the hip implant was designed defectively. The plaintiff in the second case, a 54-year-old woman from Illinois, has claimed that the ASR hip implant she received has failed three years after the surgery and that as (read more)
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Mar
2013
$8.3 Million Awarded In First ASR Hip Case
Multiple news agencies have reported the jury has awarded $8.3 million to the man who filed the first lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson. According to the reports, the jury decided on awarding the Plaintiff after hearing both sides during the first DePuy hip implant trial. According to the reports, lawyers accused the company and the DePuy Orthopaedics subsidiary to market the all-metal hip implants while aware of the product’s defective design. According to the reports, jurors decided that the ASR (read more)
Read MoreAccording to a series of news agencies, Johnson & Johnson is under investigation by federal agencies looking into the company’s marketing practices. The reports show that after the line of hip implants that has been recalled in 2010 may have been marketed in spite of the product’s potential design flaw. According to some of the reports, the company is believed to have been aware of the flaw before the product was marketed. The probe, reports show, initiated with an “informal (read more)
Read MoreAccording to a series of news agencies, the company Johnson & Johnson may have gambled with the health of several patients when it reportedly avoided taking into consideration the potential risks linked to the defective design of its DePuy all-metal hip implants. The reports show that, according to the defense, the company was aware of the defect long before the patient who’s now suing J&J received the implant. The 65-year-old former prison guard says he’s not suffering metal poisoning and (read more)
Read MoreAccording to recent reports, the first of 10,750 lawsuits filed against Johnson & Johnson over DePuy devices is on trial. Sources say that the company may have continued selling the potentially defective hip implants in spite of the fact the rate of implant failure was greater than what was expected. According to the reports, jurors heard the closing arguments today. Lawyers argued that the company decided to sell the product in spite of the fact its executives were fully aware (read more)
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Feb
2013
Surgeon Who Designed DePuy’s ASR Hip Testifies
Multiple news agencies have reported that during the hearing concerning the first lawsuit filed against Johnson & Johnson linked to ASR hip implants, a surgeon from California has testified that he, the man who designed Johnson & Johnson’s recalled hip implants, forwarded all complaints concerning the devices to the DePuy marketing department and was unaware of the group that had been designated to investigate into these issues. According to the news, the surgeon testified before the jury and claimed that (read more)
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