Hip Implants

There have been more than 900 lawsuits included as part of Multidistrict Litigation against DePuy Orthopaedics over its faulty Pinnacle hip implant. According to an update on the status of MDL No. 2244, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas against DePuy Orthopaedics, more than 900 lawsuits have been filed by [...]Read Full Story

The Rottenstein Law Group has some misgivings about a reported proposed new arrangement for the evaluation of medical devices by the FDA. According to a recent Bloomberg Businessweek report , in the next five years medical device manufacturers will pay twice as much to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for “faster and more predictable evaluations.” “The pact with the Food and Drug Administration, which must be authorized by Congress, replaces one that cost Medtronic Inc., Johnson...Read Full Story

When the Depuy Orthopaedic hip device was found to have a higher-than-average failure rate, no one anticipated the wave of metal-on-metal devices that would be put under the microscope. Several studies have since shown that metal on metal hip replacement devices contribute to serious health complications that can lead to painful revision surgeries and permanent health problems. The metal on metal hip failure attorneys at Bisnar and Chase are working towards providing financial compensation...Read Full Story

An all-metal version of DePuy Orthopaedics’ Pinnacle hip implant system has been named in over 900 product liability lawsuits by people who claim the device caused severe pain, dislocation of the hip implant, early hip replacement failure or the need for additional revision surgery. The DePuy Pinnacle hip implant lawsuits also allege that the metal-on-metal version of the device is similar in design to DePuy’s ASR hip implant, which was recalled in 2010, and should be recalled as well...Read Full Story

Washington, DC: Johnson and Johnson subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics has reportedly received a warning from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about its DePuy hip implant. The Johnson and Johnson subsidiary is the same company that marketed the DePuy hip replacement devices, which were recalled in 2010 and linked to a high failure rate. Those metal-on-metal hip devices are now the focus of multiple DePuy lawsuits in the USRead Full Story

There is new method which may help doctors identify osteoarthritis at such an early stage, the Science Daily says, quoting study findings. This development may help lessen the increase of hip implant surgeries about " which court documents reveal to be more than 900 cases in DePuy Pinnacle MDL " . With this latest discovery, it may be possible to delay the development of osteoarthritis by many years, or maybe even stop it entirely, reports the Science Daily. There are more than 21 million...Read Full Story

New hip (Photo credit: okadots ) Fears have been raised about hip implants causing "systemic toxicity" in a report last month which was produced by Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The toxins are caused by miniscule metal fillings breaking off due to friction between the ball and cup of where the replacement has taken place.  There is now an investigation underway in America which has found that metal-on-metal hip implants had shown signs of wear and tear. It...Read Full Story