The Zimmer Durom Cup device is the subject of an ongoing multidistrict litigation case taking place in New Jersey, and a new plaintiff has added his lawsuit to the case. Christopher Wilson originally filed his Zimmer hip litigation in the United States' District Court for... Read More

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation established the ongoing DePuyhip MDL in the Northern DIstrict of Ohio, under the jurisdiction of Judge David A. Katz, who has been assigned to oversee the proceedings. Thousands of lawsuits are now consolidated in the ongoing case, with plaintiffs... Read More

A new DePuy hip lawsuit was filed by Alfred Strauss and his wife Annie Strauss on September 18, 2012, in the District Court in the Southern District of Ohio. Plaintiff Strauss alleges failure of the device and that he required two revision surgeries as a... Read More

On August 31, 2012, a new lawsuit was filed by Robert Edwards against manufacturers DePuy Orthopedics and Johnson & Johnson accusing the companies of selling defective hip replacements devices. The case was field in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. It is alleged that... Read More

On September 5, 2012, plaintiff Darlene A. Gray's Stryker hip lawsuit was removed from the Superior Court of the State of Indiana for the County of Marion to the United States District Court, Southern District of Indiana, which is a federal court, due to federal... Read More

A July 2012 study in Orthopedics reports that in hip implants such as the Zimmer Durom Cup, device failure usually occurs within the first two years after implantation. A March 2012 study in the Lancet indicated failure rates for metal-on-metal hip implants two-to-four times higher... Read More

Eight current and former executives of DePuy Orthopedics, the device manufacturing company and subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson responsible for the manufacture and marketing of the ASR hip replacement device, are scheduled to testify at the ongoing Ohio multidistrict litigation concerning the device. The y... Read More

A lawsuit claiming that Stryker Corporation was negligent and did not adequately warn patients about the risks associated with its Trident hip replacement system was filed in the Superior Court of the State of Indiana for the County of Marion by plaintiff Darlene A. Gray.... Read More