Multiple news agencies have reported that Johnson & Johnson will be soon disclosing results of different government investigations concerning all-metal hip implants. During the ongoing trial, the U.S. Justice Department requested any documents that showed if the company or its DePuy unit submitted false claims concerning its ASR XL hip devices to federal health-care agencies. The company has reported it’s cooperating with the investigation and that it will provide all documents requested by the Justice Department. According to the filing, (read more)
Read MoreMultiple news agencies have reported that three years before all-metal hip implants manufactured by Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy unit were recalled, company marketers feared that the issue concerning metal ion debris could cause patients and physicians to become uneasy, which could eventually hurt sales. According to what the jury in Los Angeles was told, one of the mains DePuy marketing executives testified before the jury in California at the first of the many lawsuits linked to the ASR hip implants (read more)
Read MoreMultiple media outlets have been covering the recent hearings on the first lawsuit filed against Johnson & Jonson over the potentially defective DePuy all-metal hip implants linked to a series of cases of premature failures that resulted in revision surgeries. According to some of these media outlets, all-metal hip implants have failed at a higher rate than hip implants made with other types of material in the past 5 years. Reports show that evidence may suggest one of the major (read more)
Read MoreAccording to a series of news agencies, a witness said that Johnson & Johnson failed to take into consideration the risk concerning metal debris associated with the potentially hazardous all-metal hip implants. The reports indicate that the DePuy unit failed to consider that the components used in the production of these metal hip implants could be harmful to the recipients. During the hearing, a witness told the California jury that the DePuy unit should have looked into the potential harm (read more)
Read MoreIt has been reported that DePuy continued to market its all-metal hip implants despite receiving warning emails from top consultant surgeons regarding the efficiency of the device and its design. The leading British surgeon contacted executives to report his concerns regarding the design of the cup in the hip implant, however, little was reportedly done to review the device’s design and stop marketing the implant in order to have the issue solved before proceeding to allow patients to utilize the (read more)
Read MoreAccording to a series of media outlets, the president of the DePuy unit of Johnson & Johnson claimed in court that the company decided to recall 93,000 units of its all-metal hip implants after it was noted that the company found the implants failed to meet clinical needs for the product, which would dismiss reports showing the devices were unsafe. The reports show that during the hearing of the first of 10,000 cases going to trial over patient claims, the (read more)
Read MoreMultiple news agencies have indicated that, after a recall that pulled 93,000 metal hip implants from the market, it has been noted that the company responsible for the manufacturing and distribution of these devices had estimated that at least 37 percent of all metal devices were prone to failure within 4.6 years. Johnson & Johnson is now facing 10,000 lawsuits over these defectives metal hip implants branded as ASR hips. These devices were linked to a high rate of failure. (read more)
Read MoreIt’s been reported by several media outlets that Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay around $600,000 in the first settlements out of the 8,000 lawsuits filed against the company over defective and recalled hip implants. According to the several articles mentioning this settlement, these hip implants were recalled back in 2010. Patients with the recalled implants suffered infections, bone fractures and some were even immobilized due to joint dislocations reportedly caused by the metal implants. The three lawsuits were (read more)
Read MoreAs ASR patients experience an increased failure rate, previous claims that the device was failing because of incorrect implantation by doctors is proving untrue.
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