Several different hip replacement systems and artificial hip components sold in recent years have been linked to high failure rates and other complications. Product liability lawsuits are being reviewed for individuals who received defective or recalled hip replacements. Find Out If You Have a Hip Replacement Case: Lawyers are reviewing hip replacement lawsuits for individuals who received an implant since 2006 and have: Received notice the hip implant recalled; Required metal blood testing for cobalt/chromium levels; Experienced loosening, fracture or other problems that resulted in the need for hip revision surgery. CONTACT A HIP REPLACEMENT LAWYER Smith and Nephew Birmingham…
A Texas couple has filed a lawsuit over the DePuy LPS hip replacement system, indicating it is defectively designed, which resulted in failure and the need for revision surgery.…
Attorneys are investigating hip and knee surgery infections which may be linked to the use of warming blankets during surgery.…
Johnson & Johnson has reached a $1 billion DePuy Pinnacle hip implant settlement with about 6,000 patients who had to have the devices removed after they failed.…
Two new studies reveal that most patients can reasonably expect that their hip and knee replacement systems should last about 25 years.…
An expanded DePuy Pinnacle Hip settlement agreement could resolve most of the outstanding cases.…
Johnson & Johnson and DePuy will pay $120 million and make a number of changes to its marketing approaches to resolve claims that it engaged in deceptive marketing when describing the lifespan of some of its metal-on-metal hip implants.…
Johnson & Johnson has reportedly agreed to pay more than $400 million to resolve thousands of DePuy Pinnacle hip lawsuits.…
A Zimmer M/L Taper lawsuit claims that the hip implants are defective, with a high risk of corrosion, fretting and failure.…
A new lawsuit claims that when the Zimmer M/L Taper Hip System is combined with the Versys cobalt-chromium femoral head, it becomes a defective product prone to fretting, corrosion and failure.…
