February 13, 2011

First Georgia DePuy Hip Implants Cases Filed in Dekalb County State Court

On February 4th, the first of several products liability suits against DePuy and DCMedical were filed. As we discussed in an early article on the blog, most of the cases are vulnerable to removal to Federal Court because there is a rule which says if the Defendant is not from the State where the lawsuit is brought and it is a big case, the Defendant has the right to move the case out of the local level Courts and into Federal Court. This is an advantage for DePuy because once the case is in Federal Court, it is subject to certain rules regarding Multi District Litigation.

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January 24, 2011

I Have DePuy Hip Implants; What Lawyers in Georgia are Handling Implant Cases?

Late this summer DePuy Orthopedics sent out a recall of the ASR XL Acetabular hip replacement and our DePuy Implant lawyers in Georgia have been mobilizing to get information to the recipients.

The recall came about after new medical studies showed that the DePuy hip implant had a 1 in 8 failure rate. The failed hip replacements caused some patients metal sensitivity, fractures and pain and in many cases led to the need for a revision of the hip replacement. Many of these complications could have been avoided had DePuy and Johnson & Johnson simply not received a special clearance from the FDA to begin marketing the hip replacements without clinical trials.

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