DePuy Ignored Evidence Its Hip Replacements Were Faulty

Most DePuy hip replacement lawsuits claim DePuy negligently designed and tested its products, which contributed to recipients’ injuries. However that’s not the only theory of liability hip replacement lawyers use. Recipients can also claim that DePuy knew its hip replacements were faulty but failed to warn the public of that fact in a timely manner. Had it done so, people would not have been injured. This claim has a good chance of succeeding: DePuy and its parent company, Johnson & Johnson, were aware of complaints regarding the ASR XL Acetabular System and ASR Hip Resurfacing System as far back as 2005. Notably, recipients and orthopedists began describing pain, swelling, eroded and broken bones, failed implants, and metal poisoning. These implants entered the market in 2003. Subsequently, national artificial joint registries documented their failure rates. DePuy pulled the ASR series hip replacements from foreign markets, then in the United States, and finally it issued a hip replacement recall in the summer of 2010.

In the face of mounting evidence that DePuy’s hip replacements were defective, DePuy and J&J continued marketing and selling them anyway. By proving these facts to the court, DePuy recall victims can gain a better position in hip replacement lawsuits and DePuy settlements. The situation is quite dire, for 93,000 people received DePuy implants, and recently, orthopedists in the United Kingdom determined that these same implants fail in half of recipients after only 6 years.

If you’ve been affected by the DePuy recall, it is of critical importance that you contact a hip replacement lawyer from the Rottenstein Law Group. We will do whatever we can to obtain a fair settlement, but we’re willing to go to trial if necessary to get you the compensation you deserve. Submit our contact form on the upper right of your browser or click this link.