The jury recently announced a verdict in a hotly contested Johnson & Johnson DePuy defective hip lawsuit, being tried in California state court, Los Angeles. Johnson & Johnson (J&J)’s DePuy subsidiary unit was found liable for defectively designed metal-on-metal hip implant, in the first of 10,750 lawsuits over the device to go to trial.
Many metal hip replacement systems contain chromium and cobalt in the ball-and-socket device, which became popular because they would be more durable to younger, more active hip patients.
DePuy Orthopaedics, a division of Johnson and Johnson, has issued a recall of its ASR XL Acetabular System and ASR Hip Resurfacing System hip replacement devices after medical studies demonstrated that they were more than twice as likely to fail than other hip replacements.
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