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- Witness Tampering Allegations Swirl in DePuy Hip Implant Case
Witness tampering is never taken lightly, and a federal judge presiding over a multidistrict litigation with numerous cases filed against Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Othopeodics unit is demonstrating just how seriously these allegations are taken when they come up. What was, at first, a federal ...
- Texas Couple Files DePuy Hip Replacement Lawsuit
A Texas couple recently filed a DePuy hip replacement lawsuit alleging that DePuy Orthopedics, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, marketed its Pinnacle hip implant despite knowing the product had dangerous defects. DePuy hip lawsuits are hardly new, with the first one filed over six years ago. S...
- DePuy Set to Pay $2.5 Billion for ASR Hip Implant Settlement
DePuy Orthopeadics, a subunit of Johnson & Johnson, will pay more than $2.5 billion to settle metal-on-metal hip implant lawsuits. The settlement was announced in November 2013, and late last month the company waived its “walk-away rights” and will begin paying plaintiffs. Patients who had...
- DePuy Hip Implant Settlement Details Emerge
As being reported by numerous news agencies, Johnson & Johnson has agreed to settle thousands of pending lawsuits against its subsidiary DePuy Othopaedics arising from its ASR hip implant. Attorneys for the Plaintiffs and Defendants announced the DePuy hip implant settlement agreement during a ...
- Settlement reached in DePuy Hip Implant Lawsuits
The New York Times reports that a tentative deal has been reached to settle thousands of DePuy hip implant lawsuits. The lawsuits were filed against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics, alleging premature failure of DePuy’s ASR metal-on-metal hip implants. The settlement, which...
- First Federal DePuy Hip Replacement Trial Delayed for 2 Weeks
The first federal trial involving DePuy Orthopaedic Inc.’s metal-on-metal hip implant device that was set to begin on September 9, 2013 has been continued for 2 weeks by Court order. The order cited the need for additional discovery and consideration of additional legal matters as the reason for t...
- First Federal DePuy Hip Replacement Trial Set to Begin
The National Law Journal is reporting that the first federal trial involving DePuy Orthopaedic Inc.’s metal-on-metal hip implant devices is set to begin on September 9, 2013 in Cleveland, Ohio. This is the first of nearly 8,000 cases currently being coordinated in a multidistrict litigation (MDL) ...
- DePuy to stop making metal hip implants
DePuy Orthopaedics, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, has announced that it is phasing out production of its metal-on-metal hip implants, according to a story in the New York Times. The all-metal implants feature both a ball and a socket coated in a combination of cobalt and chromium. They were origi...
- British politician angry over own DePuy hip
A high-profile British politician is speaking out about his own faulty hip implant made by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics, which has “left him in agony and needing two operations,” according to a BBC story. The story says Andrew Rothaban, Member of Parliament and defense min...
- DePuy case reaches across the Atlantic
A Los Angeles jury recently awarded $8.3 million in damages to a man who claimed he suffered metal poisoning from an artificial hip implant manufactured by Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Orthopaedics division. That was the first of about 10,000 lawsuits over the hip implant to go to trial. But Amer...
