Multiple news agencies have been covering the cases against Johnson & Johnson filed over the potentially defective ASR metal-on-metal hip implants. The second case is now being heard y a jury in Illinois, reports show. According to one of the reports, the patient’s attorney told a Chicago jury that the company should award the victim at least $5 million for the suffering she experienced in association with the fitting of the hip implants. The case involving the Illinois nurse is (read more)
Read MoreIt’s no secret that several patients who were fitted with ASR hip implants are now filing lawsuits against DePuy and Johnson & Johnson. Multiple reports have been covering the trials in the United States and the class action lawsuit filed in Australia. Other news sources also covered the possible lawsuits that would be filed against J&J in Europe over the same issue. According to recent news reports, during the second lawsuit trials, a former DePuy marketing director offered a testimony (read more)
Read MoreMultiple news agencies have indicated that in a recent hearing that a former DePuy employee was aware of e-mails containing information pertinent to how the issues related to the ASR hip implants were linked to a design defect. The information was made available during a video testimony that was heard by jurors during the second DePuy ASR trial. According to the testimony, a colleague was claiming that problems with the ASR hips could be traced back to the device’s defective (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
$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, 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)
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)
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