The 2010 DePuy Hip Replacement Recall was instituted when DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., a... [1][2] Contents 1 Background 1.1 Lawsuits 1.1.1 United States 1.1.2 Pinnacle implant litigation 2...
[15] Artificial hip litigation [edit] Following the 2010 DePuy Hip Recall, Lanier represented... defective Pinnacle metal-on-metal hip implants made by Johnson & Johnson were defectively...
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Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay $502 million to a group of patients who accused the company of hiding flaws in its Pinnacle artificial hips that caused the devices to prematurely fail and left them facing surgeries and pain, in J&J’s first loss over the products. A federal-court jury in Dallas concluded Thursday that artificial hips sold by J&J’s DePuy unit under the Pinnacle brand name were defective and company officials knew about the flaws but failed to warn patients and doctors of the risks. They awarded $142 million in actual dam ...
The DePuy hip replacement, known as the ASR, appears to have a high failure rate compared with other hip replacement devices. The DePuy hip replacement recall is considered to come way too late by some orthopedic experts. DePuy Orthopaedics pulled the ASR from Australia in December 2009 and from the US in March 2010, but the Johnson and Johnson hip replacement recall follows more than two years of complaints from patients who needed costly and painful hip revision surgery within a few years of receiving the ASR implant. ...
A Johnson & Johnson unit’s design of a metal-on-metal version of its Pinnacle hip implants isn’t defective, a Dallas jury concluded, ruling against a woman who said the devices poisoned her in the first case of its kind to go to trial. The ULTAMET artificial hips sold by J&J’s DePuy subsidiary as part of its Pinnacle line of implants had no design defects and the company properly warned patients and doctors about the devices’ risks, jurors in federal court in Dallas concluded yesterday. ...
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Friction from the metal rubbing on metal can cause debris to break off But Mr Nargol's research suggests there are also problems with an all-metal version of DePuy's Pinnacle hip implant...
Though DePuy did not recall its Pinnacle system, multiple studies have shown that metal-on-metal components had significant failure rates and complications. The company ceased the sale of...