Tag: DePuy Hip Implant

Oregon has announced a $4 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson involving the recalled DePuy ASR hip implant.

Metal-on-metal hip replacements can grind together and shed toxic particles of metal into a patient’s hip joint.

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is in a deal to pay $2.5 billion in compensation to an estimated 8,000 people who were injured by the DePuy ASR hip implant.

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) will settle more than 7,500 hip implant lawsuits involving the DePuy ASR for more than $4 billion.

Johnson & Johnson is considering a $3 billion settlement to resolve as many as 11,500 DePuy ASR hip implant lawsuits.

DePuy is discontinuing a metal liner used in the Ultamet metal-on-metal and Complete ceramic-on-metal hip implants.

A jury in California awarded $8.3 million in a DePuy ASR hip implant lawsuit.

DePuy knew that the ASR hip implant failed the company’s own safety tests, but instead of fixing the problem, they changed the testing criteria.

A woman from New York filed a lawsuit after she was injured by a defective ASR metal hip implant.

Johnson & Johnson was aware of serious problems with the ASR hip implant in 2008.