The Food and Drug Administration announced in March of 2012 that they would be convening a board of medical experts in order to review the effectiveness and potential danger of metal on metal hip replacement systems such as those manufactured by Zimmer. This comes after... Read More

Plaintiff Russell Lee Williams became one of the latest members of DePuy litigation when he filed his DePuy hip lawsuit on the 6th of April 2012. The Sacramento, California resident says in his lawsuit, filed with the help of DePuy hip lawyers, that he experienced... Read More

According to an April 2, 2012 master case list, DePuy lawsuit multidistrict litigation (MDL), which is consolidated into U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, has grown to more than 1,000 complaints. These cases cite similar DePuy hip complications, although some Pinnacle hip... Read More

On February 22, 2012, eight DePuy lawsuit plaintiffs filed a motion to oppose transfer of their individual cases to the multidistrict litigation (MDL) currently underway in Texas. According to their DePuy hip attorney, the plaintiffs believed they should continue in state court, since they each... Read More

The New York Times recently reported that British health regulators, on the heels of the latest research results, have updated their guidelines for recipients of metal-on-metal hip implants. Before the update, these guidelines encouraged patients to practice careful medical monitoring of their hip replacements for... Read More

On February 21, 2012, Georgia resident John Paul McGinnis filed a DePuy hip recall lawsuit in California Superior Court for Los Angeles County. McGinnis claims that DePuy Orthopaedics Inc., as well as parent company Johnson & Johnson, are responsible for his "severe and permanent injuries"... Read More

A new federal MDL (multidistrict litigation) will address complaints about Wright Medical Technology's “Conserve” metal-on-metal hip implant. This latest MDL will join two pending coordinated proceedings involving plaintiff allegations about DePuy hip complications – one for DePuy hip recall lawsuit plaintiffs, headquartered in Ohio, and... Read More

On January 10, 2012, Cassandra Eubanks, a 21-year-old resident of Tucson, Arizona, filed a lawsuit alleging DePuy ASR hip complications including severe pain in her groin, right hip, and lateral hip region, with pain radiating down into her thigh. Eubanks was only 15 years old... Read More